A Talking Picture
Released: August 31, 2003Runtime: 96 minLanguage: PT
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
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Leonor Silveira
as Rosa Maria
Filipa De Almeida
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John Malkovich
as Comandante John Walesa
Catherine Deneuve
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Stefania Sandrelli
as Francesca
Irene Papas
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Luis Miguel Cintra
as Self - Portuguese Actor
Michel Lubrano Di Sbaraglione
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Francois Da Silva
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Nikos Hatzopoulos
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