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No, or the Vain Glory of Command. No, or the Vain Glory of Command ( Portuguese: Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar) is a 1990 Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. The film, starring Luís Miguel Cintra and Miguel Guilherme, depicts a series of defeats from the entire military history of Portugal – the assassination of Viriathus, the ...
Mar 24, 2021 · No, Or The Vain Glory Of Command (1990) by Manoel de Oliveira Publication date 1990 Topics film, cinema, movie . Addeddate 2021-03-24 10:21:18 Identifier no-or-the-vain-glory-of-command Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4
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Dec 23, 2017 · No, or the Vain Glory of Command, 1990. 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 ...
No, or the Vain Glory of Command 1990 'Non', ou a Vã Glória de Mandar Directed by Manoel de Oliveira
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- Gemini Films, Tornasol Films, Madragoa Filmes
- Manoel de Oliveira
No is a chronicle of defeats, a film that successfully evokes the sting of failure. Its time-hopping structure is remarkable. If the frame narrative took place in the present day (that is to say, the early ‘90s, when the film was made), the whole construction might’ve struck me as ever so slightly contrived. But by setting the “present action” in the 1970s, Oliveira makes all of these historic battles feel that much further removed from us. Even the conflicts happening “right now ...
- Manoel de Oliveira
Feb 10, 2014 · No, or the Vain Glory of Command. 1991 1h 27m History Drama. List. No score yet. Reviews. Fresh audience score. 74% Audience Score 100+ Ratings. Flashbacks paint a picture of the military history ...
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Oct 12, 1990 · Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.
