Manoel de Oliveira – ‘Non’, ou A Vã Glória de Mandar AKA No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
Quote:
Inasmuch as Manoel de Oliveira’s films convey what Randal Johnson describes as a cinematic hybridity that illustrates the amorphous nature of representation, No, or the Vain Glory of Command also reflects a temporal hybridity, where time is presented as a conflation of seemingly arbitrary, but integrally connected history. Opening to a long take of a large ancient tree shot from a moving camera platform in the African wilderness, the correlation between enduring image and its representation through a constantly shifting point of view also serves as a contemporary metaphor for Portuguese history itself, where its consequences continue to be re-evaluated through the shifting perspective of an increasingly marginalized legacy. Shot in 1990 as a historical fiction on the waning days of Estado Novo and colonialism under the Salazar regime that crystallized with the Revolution of 1974, the film further incorporates a tertiary, non-fictional chronology, as the soldiers sent to Angola to suppress the insurgency and maintain control of the “overseas provinces” (even as the country faces its own domestic crisis resulting from dissatisfaction with the repressive government) revisit the decisive battles and pivotal events that would shape the course of Portuguese history.
Non.ou.a.Van.Gloria.de.Mandar.1990.720p.WEBRip.x264-MaZ.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 51mn
Size: 3.25 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 960x720
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 24.000 fps
Bit rate: 3 978 Kbps
BPP: 0.240
Audio
#1: Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps
Language(s):Portuguese, Spanish
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian
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