Dizer com a boca o que a página não diz - Os diálogos de O Princípio da Incerteza, de Manoel de Oliveira, em confronto com o romance de Agustina Bessa-Luís

Abstract

In “Jóia de Família”, Agustina returns to the familiar landscape of Douro Valley, with its traditional families and intricate social codes. The novel has been adapted by Manoel de Oliveira in “The Uncertainty Principle”. In it it is staged an elaborate tale of deceit and intrigue. However, more than the events, the writer and the director are more interested in the moral implications of the characters’ decisions. In this presentation, I will analyze the way that the book plot and characterization have been converted and conveyed in the dialogue, and how a medium so dominated by naturalism like cinema has been turned into a canvas where Oliveira stages a complex chess of relationships and events, dominated by philosophy and metaphysics, and how an undercurrent of religious thought models the characters and actions.