Manoel
de Oliveira, the acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker whose career began in the silent
era, flowered in the 1970s with the end of authoritarian rule in his country
and ended with a surge of productivity extending into his 11th decade, died on
Thursday at his home in Oporto, Portugal. He was 106.
His death
was announced by the City Council of Oporto.
For much
of the past 25 years Mr. Oliveira was known among cinephiles as the world’s
oldest active filmmaker. Unable to work for decades under the repressive
right-wing government of António
de Oliveira Salazar,
who came to power in 1932, Mr. Oliveira started making up for lost time in his
60s, at an age when most directors are entering their creative twilight.
Almost as old as cinema itself, Mr. Oliveira often seemed like a
filmmaker out of time, or perhaps of many times, a 20th-century modernist drawn
to the themes and traditions of earlier eras. He was known for ruminative,
melancholic, often eccentric movies about grand subjects like the nature of
love and the ever-present specter of death.
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