Abraham's Valley

Abraham's Valley

1993
Drama
3h 7m
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover. (imdb)
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Abraham's Valley

1993
Drama
3h 7m
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Rated 23 Apr 2009
2
16th
"The film as a whole makes very little attempt to put its various arty fetishes into any kind of context. Worth it, though, for the odd flashes of insight."
Rated 11 Nov 2015
5
70th
there are a lot of great things about this. the elegant photography; the extremely well-developed characters; the subtle sociopolitical context; the lovely use of piano music by beethoven and debussy. but, well, i really could have done without that bloody narration. also, much of the text was about how women are like this and men are like that, and i tend to turn off when films run off on that theme. BENILDE was vastly superior, especially aesthetically. still, this is highly intelligent stuff.
Rated 02 Dec 2011
60
20th
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Rated 15 Jan 2010
62
24th
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Rated 06 Sep 2010
35
4th
I found the narration exceedingly annoying. A bunch of bourgeois bullshit, unrelatable characters prattling on about nothing to do with real life, humorlessly waxing philosphical about vague concepts and unburdened with the practicalities of day-to-day living. Lots of literary references designed to allow the cultural elite to nod knowingly. When the narrator would shut his stupid piehole, I would occasionally start to get involved, but eventually he'd start chiming in again with his nonsense.
Rated 09 Jun 2019
96
96th
Fim de semana em honra de Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922 - 2019) filme #3. Talvez essa seja a grande obra-prima de Manoel de Oliveira, mas de novo quero reiterar o discurso parado no tempo na parceria Oliveira/Bessa~Luís, embora passado nas últimas décadas do século XX, sua mentalidade ainda é a da primeira metade do mesmo século, não atualizando Madame Bovary tanto quanto gostariam. DVDRip no MakingOff.
Rated 27 Aug 2022
62
25th
This is well done but oppressively long at over 3 and a half hours (for the director's cut.) Ema is a really interesting character, played very well by Silveira. There are some interesting ideas about gender and interesting character work. At times I was very focused on it and at others I found myself kind of drifting, which is usually an indication of pacing issues. The narrator is a lot, and it might have been a better movie without him.

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