Portuguese film of Manoel de Oliveira

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starring: Leonor Silveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Portugal 1993, 35mm, color, 187 min.
Among Oliveira's uncontested masterpieces, "Abraham's Valley" is an adaptation of a novel that Oliveira himself commissioned from Bessa-Luís who, in turn, loosely took Madame Bovary as her inspiration.
Oliveira's longtime muse, the wondrous Leonora Silveira, stars as Ema, a provincial doctor's daughter whose remarkable beauty and restless spirit drive men to reckless extremes of passion and devotion.
Set in Oliveira's beloved Douro valley, "Abraham's Valley" uses the landscape as the lush backdrop for a haunting drama of unrequited love and impossible desire enlivened by Oliveira's wry humor.