Portuguese maestro Manoel De Oliveira contemplates past deeds and future challenges in this comedy of reputations and resolutions.
Some may find the extracts from Ionesco's Exit The King, Shakespeare's The Tempest and Joyce's Ulysses a chore, but each comments precisely on Piccoli's painful evolution and allows De Oliveira to pronounce on the state of the performing arts. Abounding with sly jokes and world-weary wisdom, this is an urbane delight.