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Visit or Memories and Confessions
by Manoel de Oliveira
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The director, Manoel de Oliveira, is in the Porto house where he has lived for decades, preparing to leave due to mounting debts. He addresses the audience directly, discussing family history, cinema, and architecture, sharing home movies, and reenacting his run-in with the military dictatorship.

Original Title: Visita ou Memórias e Confissões
Countries: Portugal
Year: 1982
Ratio: 1:1.37
Length: 68 min
Language: Portuguese
Festivals & Awards
2015
  • Cannes Film Festival – Cannes Classics
About Director
Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel de Oliveira (1908–2015) was a legendary Portuguese filmmaker whose career spanned over 80 years—from silent cinema to the 21st century. Known for his poetic, philosophical, and highly original style, Oliveira directed acclaimed works such as "Aniki-Bobó", "The Rite of Spring", and "Abraham’s Valley", often blending literature, theatre, and history. Celebrated at Cannes, Venice, and Berlin, he received numerous international awards, including the Honorary Palme d’Or. Oliveira remained creatively active well past 100, leaving behind a singular legacy in world cinema.

FILMOGRAPHY
  • O conquistador conquistado – 2012 – Short film
  • Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl – 2009
  • Belle Toujours – 2006
  • Magic Mirror – 2005
  • Blind Man’s Bluff – 1994
  • Abraham’s Valley – 1993
  • Day of Despair – 1992
  • The Divine Comedy – 1991
  • No, or the Vain Glory of Command – 1990
  • The Cannibals – 1988
  • My Case – 1986
  • The Satin Slipper – 1985
  • Lisboa Cultural – 1983 – Short film
  • Visit or Memories and Confessions – 1982
  • Doomed Love – 1978
  • Benilde or the Virgin Mother – 1975
  • Past and Present – 1972
  • Romance de Vila do Conde – 1968 – Short film
  • Rite of Spring – 1963
  • A Caça – 1963 – Short film
  • O Pão – 1959 – Short film
  • As pinturas do meu irmão Júlio – 1959 – Short film
  • O Pintor e a Cidade – 1956 – Short film
  • Aniki-Bóbó – 1942
  • Famalicão – 1941 – Short film
  • Portugal já faz automóveis – 1938 – Short film
  • Hulha Branca – 1932 – Short film
  • Douro Faina Fluvial – 1931 – Short film
Cast & Crew
Cast

Manoel de Oliveira
Maria Isabel de Oliveira
Diogo Dória
Teresa Madruga

Crew

DOP: Elso Roque
Editors: Manoel de Oliveira, Ana Luísa Guimarães
Sound: Joaquim Pinto, Vasco Pimentel
Production: Cineastas Associados
World Sales: Luxbox

“Everyone in your life has a role. This world is a stage and we are the performers. We recite the manuscript of a play that we begin to know as we experience it. We don’t know the future, because the author hasn’t yet revealed it! Visit or Memories and Confessions arises from random circumstances. I realised that I should preserve this memory and pass it on to the cinema... There are also other reasons that go much deeper. But the subconscious cannot talk!”