Is this a documentary?
By: João BotaDouro
Movies that, not being “pure” documentarys, have moments of great closeness to reality or talk about their own process and their own nature. Films that are a reflection on cinema itself, its devices, its infinite and almost magical possibilities and their yet bigger limitations. Or …. is this a documentary?
Kiarostami is one of the artist that went further in blurring the boundaries of the documentary, moved always by great interest in the reality. If the last sequence of “The Taste of Cherry” with a digital camera showing the film crew raised some interesting debates, then what about the two scenes in Oliveira´s “Benilde or the Virgin Mother”, the opening and final – in which the camera moves from the studio back into it, doing the reverse movement at the end, in one of the most amazing scenes i´ve seen in cinema. In “The Day of Despair”, the actors become the characters before our eye, in a astonishing scene. Not wanting to compare or rank the two directors, the fact is that Oliveira did this movies decades before kiarostami.
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01Abbas Kiarostami
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02Manoel de Oliveira
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03Abbas Kiarostami
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04Abbas Kiarostami
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05Manoel de Oliveira
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06Abbas Kiarostami
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07Miguel Gomes
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08Kamran Shirdel
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09Agnès Varda
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10Agnès Varda
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11Mercedes Álvarez
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12Susana de Sousa Dias
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13Agnès Varda
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14Frederick Wiseman
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15Sérgio Tréfaut
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16Werner Herzog
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17Alain Cavalier
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18Manoel de Oliveira
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19Laurent Cantet
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20Werner Herzog
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21Werner Herzog
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22Martin Scorsese
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23Abdellatif Kechiche
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24Fernando Lopes
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25Forugh Farrokhzad
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26Walter Ruttmann
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27Martin Scorsese
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28Michelangelo Antonioni
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29Werner Herzog
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30Khavn
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31Thomas Vinterberg
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32David Gelb
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33Federico Fellini
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34Luis Buñuel
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35Alain Cavalier
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36António Reis
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37Werner Herzog
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38Werner Herzog
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39John Dullaghan
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40João César Monteiro
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41Manoel de Oliveira