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TALKING PICTURE, A


original title:	FILME FALADO, UN
directed by:	Manoel de Oliveira
cast:	Leonor Silveira, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Stefania Sandrelli
screenplay:	Manoel de Oliveira
cinematography:	Emmanuel Machuel
set design:	Zé Branc
costume design:	Isabel Branco
producer:	Paulo Branco
production:	Mikado Film, Gemini Films, Madragoa Filmes (Lisbon), RTP - Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, ICAM (Lisbon)
distributor:	MIKADO
world sales:	ALFAMA FILMS
country:	Portugal/France/Italy
year:	2003
film run:	96'
format:	35mm - colour
aspect ratio:	1:1.66
sound:	Dolby Digital
release date:	26/03/2004
festival & awards:	THE CAPE WINELANDS FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Tribute to Manuel De Oliveira MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA 2005: Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective CPH:PIX NEW COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004: Panorama HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004: Master Class INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BRATISLAVA 2004: European Film INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL 2004: Mined Zone PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004: International Masters INTERNATIONAL THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL 2003: Special Screenings LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2003: In Competition MONTRÉAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2003: Out of Competition MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA 2003: Perspectiva Internacional

Rosa Maria, a young History professor, sets out with her daughter Maria Joana on a cruise that will travel through the Mediterranean to Bombay, India, where they will meet her husband. This pleasure cruise also serves for Rosa Maria, to get to know for the first time and show her daughter, places about which she talks in her classes but which she never visited.