Name: FRANCISCA [DVD]
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SKU: 96604862083
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FRANCISCA [DVD]A 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

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