Abraham's Valley

IMDb link: 0108471
IMDb rating: 7.3 (1,726 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Cast: Ruy de Carvalho, Luis Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Cecile Sanz de Alba and others

Release date: 21 Jan 1994
Release year: 1994
Runtime: 187 minutes
Country: France, Portugal, Switzerland
Keywords: youth, existential loneliness, existential poetry, female body, female protagonist, nonlinear timeline, loneliness, sensuality, intimacy, interior

Plot:

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover.

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