6.9
Wag the Dog
1997
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
October 12, 19901h 47mPT
6.4
27 votes
Overview
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
Director
Manoel de OliveiraWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Portuguese
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Gemini FilmsTornasol MediaMadragoa Filmes
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Filipe Manuel Neto
4.0**One of Oliveira's best… but weak, fragile, boring and a little unpatriotic.** I already had the opportunity to see, and review here, more than one film by Manoel de Oliveira, and after having seen this film, I keep my ideas. I have absolutely nothing against the director, I really appreciate his tenacity, his passion for cinematographic art, the way he devoted himself to cinema in a country that never saw in cinema anything but a "fait-diver", and that never led him to seriously or adequately supported it (lack of interest and support that does not apply only to cinema, but is something c…
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