Abraham's Valley

Abraham's Valley

1993 · 204 min · PT · 7.4 (46 votes)
Dir. Manoel de Oliveira · Starring Leonor Silveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Lima Barreto, Micheline Larpin
Drama

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.

VIBE

A quiet, contemplative drama about unspoken desires and the ache of loneliness. It feels like a faded photograph, capturing a yearning heart in a world of quiet desperation and societal constraint.

melancholicyearningromanticwistfulslow-burnarthouse dramacharacter studyperiod pieceunrequited lovelonelinesssocietal expectationsdesire
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