The filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira yesterday put his autograph on a train Alfa pendular placed in one of the bays of the station of S. Benedict, in Porto. The ceremony organized by the CP wanted to honor the director, who next month completes 100 years.
The train provides links Lisbon and Porto, has the carriages decorated with images of characters from the movie 'Aniki Bobo "(1942), the first feature-length film de Oliveira, held in the area of Riverside, a few hundred meters from the station where the the first time an Alfa parked. After placing his signature on the front carriage, Manoel de Oliveira said to feel "an extra-terrestrial" in the face of all that has been happening to him recently.
To express their emotions by the fact that the CP providing this tribute, the director evoked the imagery of trains, very present in his first movie, and its connection to the Douro and a country's interior. When that evoke memory, called Oliveira, after all, a reality increasingly distant from the current daily rail links in Portugal.
In a moment that is not realized if it was distracting or a result of their usual ironies, Manuel de Oliveira said it was "deeply touched" to learn that one train would now make "the connection to the Port and Douro Régua."
Before entering the station, where it was extended a red lanyard to the Alpha, Oliveira, accompanied by wife, was submerged by a small crowd that applauded and never tires to ask autographs.
Ofuscado by the Boards of photographers and television, the filmmaker only to very cost could move among the many that even if caught napping, wanted to pay tribute to her and greet him.
Also present at the ceremony, the president of CP, Francisco Cardoso dos Reis, said that "the best train was named for the better filmmaker."
In the end, and in a symbolic gesture to the picture, put Oliveira one of the old hats of the reviewers of the CP and shook the pliers of charging tickets.
It was the last act before leaving for Lisbon where, starting this weekend, begins to play his next film, 'A singularity of blondes' of Eça de Queiroz.
The train provides links Lisbon and Porto, has the carriages decorated with images of characters from the movie 'Aniki Bobo "(1942), the first feature-length film de Oliveira, held in the area of Riverside, a few hundred meters from the station where the the first time an Alfa parked. After placing his signature on the front carriage, Manoel de Oliveira said to feel "an extra-terrestrial" in the face of all that has been happening to him recently.
To express their emotions by the fact that the CP providing this tribute, the director evoked the imagery of trains, very present in his first movie, and its connection to the Douro and a country's interior. When that evoke memory, called Oliveira, after all, a reality increasingly distant from the current daily rail links in Portugal.
In a moment that is not realized if it was distracting or a result of their usual ironies, Manuel de Oliveira said it was "deeply touched" to learn that one train would now make "the connection to the Port and Douro Régua."
Before entering the station, where it was extended a red lanyard to the Alpha, Oliveira, accompanied by wife, was submerged by a small crowd that applauded and never tires to ask autographs.
Ofuscado by the Boards of photographers and television, the filmmaker only to very cost could move among the many that even if caught napping, wanted to pay tribute to her and greet him.
Also present at the ceremony, the president of CP, Francisco Cardoso dos Reis, said that "the best train was named for the better filmmaker."
In the end, and in a symbolic gesture to the picture, put Oliveira one of the old hats of the reviewers of the CP and shook the pliers of charging tickets.
It was the last act before leaving for Lisbon where, starting this weekend, begins to play his next film, 'A singularity of blondes' of Eça de Queiroz.
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