The 15th Stone Poster

The 15th Stone 2007

★ 6.54 votes121 min📅 2007-10-26

"Manoel de Oliveira and João Bénard da Costa in a conversation filmed by Rita Azevedo Gomes"

Overview

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors [96-years-old then]. Two humanists of different philosophical backgrounds, both with their long, entire lives dedicated to culture in general (music, painting, literature) and to film in particular, discuss freely, sometimes haltingly, the director's power as a creator or a magician, the philosophy beyond particular scenes in classic movies, film techn

Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast

Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira
Himself
João Bénard da Costa
João Bénard da Costa
Himself