O Pão
Director Manoel de Oliveira
Countries Portugal
Duration 24 min
Synopsis
Opening with lyrical shots of wheat fields, Bread is a Joris Ivens–like portrait of bread production, from factory work to international deal-making to consumers, and finally back to the fields, with Oliveira’s associative editing achieving a striking merger of polemics and poetry.
Opening with lyrical shots of wheat fields, Bread is a Joris Ivens–like portrait of bread production, from factory work to international deal-making to consumers, and finally back to the fields, with Oliveira’s associative editing achieving a striking merger of polemics and poetry.