FRANCISCA [DVD] is a multidimensional journey through

is a multidimensional journey through time

in a harrowing climax

One emerges from them shaken

Winter & Anders Edström

Black Mother channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present

FRANCISCA [DVD] is a multidimensional journey throughA portrait of an obsessive love affair, Manoel de Oliveiras Francisca is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa Lus, whose work hed later adapt twice more. The books re telling of a troubled passage in real life author Camilo Castelo Branco life his friend Jos Augusto embarked on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca, the woman the novelist loved led Oliveira to new levels of stylistic and formal imagination. (It helped that his wife, a