The Cannibals

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• Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy
• Language(s): Português (Portuguese)
• Director(s): Júlia Buisel, Fernando Vendrell, Jaime Silva
• Cast(s): Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Rogério Samora, Luís Madureira See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 35min
• Music: Joaquim Pinto,William Flageollet,Jean-Paul Loublier,João Paes
• Award(s): Best Original Soundtrack 1988 (Won)
  European Film 1988 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Nosferatu, Just Another Christmas
• Story:
  This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger (the film out-does even Luis Buñuel in that department), and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
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