Personal Info
Birth date
1947-08-15 (77 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Camera
Place of birth
Lisboa, Portugal
Also known as
Mario Barrozo
Mário Barroso
Biography
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Filmography
Abraham's Valley
7.5
Overview:
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.Francisca
7.219
Overview:
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.As Bodas de Deus
7.5
Overview:
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.My Case
6.7
Overview:
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.The Cannibals
6.8
Overview:
This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger, and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.Snow White
5.7
Overview:
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos
NYR
Overview:
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.Come and Go
7.2
Overview:
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.Le Chambon
7.8
Overview:
During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of many of the Jews sent to concentration camps.Trois couples en quête d'orages
5.3
Overview:
Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact that Rémi and his wife Estelle are unable to have children puts an increasing strain on their marriage. And Pascale, a filmmaker, is on the point of leaving her husband to pursue an affair with an opportunistic career politician.The Hips of J.W.
4.4
Overview:
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.Operation Autumn
6.8
Overview:
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.Blind Man's Bluff
6.8
Overview:
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.The Convent
5.346
Overview:
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.The Miracle According to Salomé
5.4
Overview:
Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...Km 224
4.8
Overview:
Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation will lead parents to reassess many of their certainties and question the effects on the happiness of their children.Photo
5
Overview:
Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her mother has left behind, and the prospect of a marriage that she does not really want, Elisa sets out to discover the truth. But will she recognize it when she finds it?Moral Order
5.7
Overview:
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.Fragile as the World
7.5
Overview:
An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story.A Woman's Revenge
6.208
Overview:
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.Far from Manhattan
7.6
Overview:
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.The Killers
5.3
Overview:
"Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.Day of Despair
6
Overview:
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.The Child
5
Overview:
The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.President's Target
4
Overview:
The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.At an Uncertain Time
5
Overview:
It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.Doomed Love
5.9
Overview:
A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.Acting
2020Moral Order as Aníbal Cruel
2019An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos as Self
2016Correspondences as Unknown
2016The Lisbon Thief as Unknown
2014The Old Man of Belem as Camilo Castelo Branco
2012Operation Autumn as Tito de Morais
2012A Woman's Revenge as Guest at salon
2010Oh Lisboa, Meu Lar as Narrator (voice)
2004The Miracle According to Salomé as Monsenhor
2003Come and Go as Médico
2001Fragile as the World as Narrator (voice)
1997The Hips of J.W. as Novo Poder 2
1996God's Comedy as Pedro Cruel
1994Blind Man's Bluff as Partner
1993Abraham's Valley as Narrator (voice)
1992Day of Despair as Camilo Castelo Branco
1981Francisca as Camilo (Camilo Castelo Branco)
Directing
2025Lavagante ... Director
2020Moral Order ... Director
2008Doomed Love ... Director
2004The Miracle According to Salomé ... Director
2000Aniversário ... Director
Camera
2025Lavagante ... Director of Photography
2022Km 224 ... Director of Photography
2022The Child ... Director of Photography
2020Moral Order ... Director of Photography
2015At an Uncertain Time ... Director of Photography
2012Photo ... Director of Photography
2008Doomed Love ... Director of Photography
2005Trois couples en quête d'orages ... Director of Photography
2004The Miracle According to Salomé ... Director of Photography
2003Come and Go ... Director of Photography
2002If I Was Him ... Director of Photography
2000Snow White ... Director of Photography
1999As Bodas de Deus ... Director of Photography
1997The Hips of J.W. ... Director of Photography
1997Féminin masculine ... Director of Photography
1996Vice vertu et vice versa ... Director of Photography
1996God's Comedy ... Director of Photography
1995The Convent ... Director of Photography
1993Abraham's Valley ... Director of Photography
1992Day of Despair ... Director of Photography
1992Aqui D'El Rei! ... Director of Photography
1989President's Target ... Director of Photography
1988Tous les nuages sont des horloges ... Director of Photography
1986My Case ... Director of Photography
1986Exit-exil ... Director of Photography
1983Jogo de Mão ... Director of Photography
1982Far from Manhattan ... Director of Photography
Crew
1995Le Cœur étincelant ... Cinematography
1994Blind Man's Bluff ... Cinematography
1994Le Chambon ... Cinematography
1988The Cannibals ... Cinematography
1980The Killers ... Cinematography