Silvestre

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The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and hi... Read allThe daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.

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7.3/10

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- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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8Fenrir_Sleeps

Aria of the Bluebeard

A feminist medieval fable, built from the fusion of two folklore tales.

JCM changes the open vistas and natural grandeur from his last film, "Veredas", to the very self-conscious artificiality of studio scenarios. Somehow, this self-consciousness, allied to the flowery, lyrical dialogues and the ponderous pace of "Silvestre", convey perfectly the sense that we are being told a tale from another age.

The only down point in "Silvestre" is the heavy use of coloured filters in the rare outdoors scenes.

9jomipira

And it starts!

João César Monteiro was one of the most controversial, exuberant, strange, mad, awarded, blessed, genius, talked about, extraordinary Portuguese movie makers of all time. And maybe one of the best directors in the world. I know it sounds ridiculous at first, but he is a man with an unique view on the world. And even though his late movies can be repetitive ( he was stuck on a character, he was stuck on the image of himself)he has made in his career some inventive and touching films. This is one of those cases. When I was a kid I used to see some movies over and over again. From great classics like Rio Bravo to the blockbusters of the time like Superman. And I saw them time and again, repeating the parts I liked the most. It was so with Silvestre. This is the kind of movie (if you see it with an open mind, it's a theatrical film) that will take you to a wonderful journey of knights and adventures. See it and let the magic carry you.

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Maria de Medeiros's debut at 15 years old. At the time Monteiro chose her, she didn't even think about acting. "My vocation, from a young age, was drawing, and I was convinced that I would do Fine Arts. But Monteiro arrived, who was a madman, or rather a mad genius. She had started shooting 'Silvestre', and when she was halfway through the film she decided to burn it and start again, from the beginning, with me, who was the daughter of a friend of his. That was the beginning of my career, a bit of a coincidence. I was a little girl."