Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

Oliveira's esthetic approach is consistently to foreground artifice by acknowledging its undeniable reality-whether it be through a performance style that is flat and affectless, for instance, or a compositional technique that concentrates on mundane images accompanied by a soundtrack that over...

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Published in:Cinéaste (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2010-09, Vol.35 (4), p.48-49
Main Author: Carson, Nathaniel Drake
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
de Oliveira, Manoel
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Summary:Oliveira's esthetic approach is consistently to foreground artifice by acknowledging its undeniable reality-whether it be through a performance style that is flat and affectless, for instance, or a compositional technique that concentrates on mundane images accompanied by a soundtrack that overflows with seemingly unrelated philosophic observations. In Eccentricities this strategy emphasizes cinema as storytelling, positioning the work as a story with a moral, while at the same time pointing to the inherent limitations of that narrative form and, by extension, of Macário's limited capacity for vision and insight.
ISSN:0009-7004
2641-9238