The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira has a new film underway, «The Velho do Restelo«, Who will film with 105 years of age.
It is a short film, although that does not detract from the fact that Manoel de Oliveira he is probably the oldest active director.
And it is that Manoel de oliveira is really active in the seventh art, in 2012 his last work to date, the French production «Gebo et l'ombre»And that same year he shot with Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice and Aki Kaurismäki the collective film«Historical Center«.
In 2010 he carried out «The strange case of Angelica" Y "The Panels of São Vicente de Fora - Poetic Vision»And a year before«The oddities of a blonde girl»And all this after having completed his 100th anniversary, which shows that Manoel de Oliveira was born for this of cinema and that he wants to say goodbye to this world doing what he does best.
Now he is in the Portuguese city of Porto filming "O Velho do Restelo", a film that is based on some fragments of "O Penitent"To Teixeira de pascoaes, which recounts the life of Camilo of Castelo Branco, romantic author of the nineteenth century, adding, yes, other literary references such as Miguel de Cervantes, since one of the characters in this short is none other than Don Quixote, to reflect on the literature and history of Portugal.