''Magic Mirror'' () is a 2005 Portuguese film directed by
Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wor ...
. It was shown in competition at the 2005
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...
. It is based on a novel by
Agustina Bessa-Luís
Agustina Bessa-Luís, GOSE (; 15 October 1922 – 3 June 2019) was a Portuguese writer. From 1986 and 1987, she was director of the daily '' O Primeiro de Janeiro'' (Porto). From 1990 to 1993, she was director of the D. Maria II National Theatre ...
.
The film was conceived as the second part of a trilogy that begun with the 2002 film ''
The Uncertainty Principle''.
Cast
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Leonor Silveira as Alfreda
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Ricardo Trêpa as José Luciano / Touro Azul
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Luís Miguel Cintra as Filipe Quinta
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Leonor Baldaque as Vicenta / Abril
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Glória de Matos as Nurse Hilda
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Isabel Ruth
Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films since 1963. She starred in '' River of Gold'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected filmog ...
as Celsa Adelaide
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Adelaide Teixeira as Queta
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Diogo Dória
Diogo Dória (born 16 April 1953) is a Portuguese film actor who has worked in France and Portugal and is most associated with his films for director Manoel de Oliveira.
Selected filmography
* 1981 ''Francisca''
* 1985 '' The Satin Slipper''
* 1 ...
as Police Commissioner
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José Wallenstein as Américo
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Maestro Atalaya as Prof. Oboé
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P. João Marques P. is an abbreviation or acronym that may refer to:
* Page (paper), where the abbreviation comes from Latin ''pagina''
* Paris Herbarium, at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle''
* ''Pani'' (Polish), translating as Mrs.
* The ''Pacific Rep ...
as Priest Feliciano (as Padre João Marques)
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Marisa Paredes as Monja
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Michel Piccoli
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide vari ...
as Prof. Heschel
Production
The film was released when Oliveira was 96 year old.
See also
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Cinema of Portugal
The Cinema of Portugal started with the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. Cinema was introduced in Portugal in 1896 with the screening of foreign films and the first Portuguese film was '' Saída do Pessoal Operário da Fábrica ...
References
External links
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2005 drama films
2005 films
Films based on works by Agustina Bessa-Luís
Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese drama films
2000s Portuguese-language films
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