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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Manoel de Oliveira |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1993 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Vanguard Cinema |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Portugese |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 658769212334 |
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Customer Reviews of Abraham's Valley
worst movie ever... i have seen A LOT OF movies, and i consistently cite this one as THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN... my god, could film drop any lower... the sheer boredom doesn't even provide any entertainment value... in the tradition of all manoel de oliveira's films (or at least the three i've forced myself to see), it is dull, dull, dull and pointless... this is cinema for those who want to claim they enjoy intellectual films and force themselves through the three-hour torture of having to watch this empty anti-film... if i wanted to see a slide show of portugal, i would just go there or pick up a picture book
I could live with the video transfer if not for the sound
This is a great film, but I am going to try to return the DVD as the soundtrack is dubbed in French. It isn't the original Portugese.
I don't own the U.S. VHS and don't know if it is also French, but I DO own a transferred copy of the U.K. PAL VHS and it is most clearly in Portugese. Even the pitch of the narrator's voice is different between the two versions.
I don't know if this was deliberate (I hope not, since the DVD box claims it is Portugese) or if they used the wrong film master, but it makes a tremendous difference.
Also, the sound is distorted in part of chapter 4, but I could even live with that if it was in the right language.
I was really looking forward to this and I'm too upset to even come up with a sappy response for the Where in the world are you? box as is my custom.
This may not be the director's cut
If the running length is 187 minutes as claimed, then the film has been cut by about 16 minutes. Perhaps the distributor trimmed the film to make it fit on a single disc? Cutting a single frame out of a Manoel de Oliveira film is inexcusable. The film should be seen in its proper aspect ratio and running time.