Sixth session of the Film and Talks Programme Um Filme Falado: Oliveira e a História do Cinema, conceived and moderated by Anabela Mota Ribeiro. This film programme, dedicated to the relationship between various significant moments and trends in the history of cinema and the work of Manoel de Oliveira, continues with the theme Major Studios, with a screening of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). After the screening, a conversation will take place with the writer Joana Bértholo and the professor of literature Marinela Freitas, moderated by Anabela Mota Ribeiro.

6 SEP | SAT | 5PM

MAJOR STUDIOS

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR

Joseph L. Mankiewicz | USA | 1947 | 104'

In the production system of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Joseph L. Mankiewicz was one of its illustrious figures, both for his witty style in creating characters and ironic dialogues, and for the long and successful working relationship he maintained with 20th Century Fox. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, a romantic comedy with a supernatural flair, features widow Gene Tierney, who rents an old seaside house haunted by the ghost of its previous owner Rex Harrison, a charming sea captain. The relationship between the two is accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's inspired music (reportedly his favorite of all the music he composed for film), which accentuates Mankiewicz's dramatic flair, itself a major contribution to the identity of 20th Century Fox comedies.