![]() This is a bird’s-eye view of history playing in slow motion-as if it were all just a bad dream. John pieces together Billys life a mix of mischief, misadventure and love, most of all for an abandoned daughter, Kelly (Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey). After a relatively harmonious beginning, riots in Lisbon and bloody colonial wars become commonplace. Meanwhile, Salazar waves affably from a balcony. Ma11:42am George Robinson Viewpoint EXCLUSIVE: George Robinson, the star of Netflix’s Sex Education, is attached to headline the movie Still Life based on the award-winning Texas. Still Life, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, is a unique hybrid of documentary and fiction. ![]() We are confronted with processions that emphasized the bond between church and army, much flag waving, children in uniform and police photos of political prisoners. Under him, Portugal became a member of the United Nations and a founder of NATO.īased on news reports, propaganda films and images from prison archives, Susana de Sousa Dias paints a picture of this almost forgotten and barely processed era in Portuguese history. ![]() In contrast to his colleagues, this absolute ruler managed to maintain a sheen of normalcy, at least to the outside world. Still Life, one-act play by Nol Coward, produced and published in 1936, about a pair of middle-aged lovers doomed to part. We all know about Nazi Germany, fascist Spain and Mussolini’s Italy, but it’s the four decades of António de Oliveira Salazar’s regime in Portugal that rates as the longest dictatorship of 20th-century Europe. ![]()
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