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The Cannibals (1988)
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Overview
This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even “post-modernist” styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d’Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger (the film out-does even Luis Buñuel in that department), and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Luís Madureira | Diogo Dória | Leonor Silveira | Luís Miguel Cintra | José Manuel Mendes | Rogério Samora | Cândido Ferreira | Glória de Matos | Sofia Alves | Teresa Côrte-Real | Rogério Vieira | Oliveira Lopes | Pedro T. da Silva | Joel Costa | António Loja Neves | Filomena Amaro