Pereira Declares

One of the late, great Marcello Mastroianni's final film appearances, and one well worth catching. Mastroianni stars as Pereira, cultural editor of Lisboa, a Lisbon daily newspaper that somehow manages to remain apolitical during the broiling summer months of 1938. A civil war rages in Spain, Fascists maintain their stranglehold on Italy, Germany has begun rounding up its Jews, Portugal has started its own brutal crackdown on dissidents, and Pereira's head is firmly buried in sand. He's dying -- his doctor has only given him a few months to live -- and Pereira just wants to live out his final days in peace, translating French literature for his apathetic re...