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      <![CDATA[BEN--and i'd suggest his quirky deadpan's on display throughout THE CONVENT ... the melodramatic recoil to the mandala (straight out of victorian theater), deneuve's brisk, vinegary impatience, the droll impishness of malkovich and luis miguel cintra, etc * makes you wonder why michael lonsdale wasn't cast somewhere: o the dyspepsia, if you get my drift ...
        
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      <![CDATA[Though I revere Oliveira, I had trouble getting into "The Convent." I think the historical and philosophical arcana are a little forbidding to someone without prior knowledge of the subject matter.
    
    As far as introductions to Oliveira go, I usually recommend "I'm Going Home" (arguably the easiest to follow and the most universal in its themes) or "A Talking Picture" (the funniest, I think, and the most topical).
    
    I agree with your observation that Olivera is non-literal in the extreme.  He tends to fixate on abstract notions, theoretical ideas, and historical generalizations that can't possibly be visualized, and the attempt to find the appropriate visual analogue is often the "joke." 
    
    I'm thinking now of the long, long, long takes of the carriage wheel that accompanies the ruminative narration in "Day of Despair," which screened at the Film Center on Sunday. While the detail provides a sort of Straubian insight into the physical reality in which Bastilo formulated the ideas we're hearing, it's also completely unrelated and therefore really peculiar.  I think that with all the veneration in celebration of Oliveira's centenary, people are forgetting what a weird sense of humor he has... kind of like a highbrow Jerry Lewis at times.
        
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