Manoel de Oliveira segment

His segment is one of the worst ones according to me - but I've always loathed anything related to Oliveira anyways. It's got Michel Piccoli standing for Kruchev (lol) and another fat guy standing for pope 12th or some other number. And the pope comes to kruchev and says "oh you're fat, like me" or something. It's got absolutely nothing to see with a cinema room, it's ugly, the actors are 143 years old, the event that is related is itself 143 years old, no one even remembers or cares to know who kruchev was or what there was to remember about pope 12th, it's forgotten as soon as you've seen it.
Here, hope it helped, I'm sorry if I can't be any more positive about this segment but it almost made me gag when compared to some of the most brilliant films.

Very weak indeed. It's about a confrontation between fat bellies: Krutchev and Pope John the XXIIIth ones; communists and catholics. Krutchev is Michel Piccoli and the Pope is João Bénard da Costa,portuguese house cinema director. Pure nonsense.

It's not as bad as people here make it out to be, it is a satiric stab at the Pope.

"This is the head comrade for the Catholics, Pope John XXIII. [...] When Comrade Stalin told us to dance, didn't we dance? When Comrade Pope tells Catholics to pray, they all start praying."

His one is the second worst I would say, at least better than the last Jew

surprised to read this, for me it was one of the best! it was unbelievebly funny. you see classic Manoel de Oliveira and his heavy and slow and meaningful films, and then at about 100 he does this satyrical piece about the pope and communists and bellies... for me it's sheer genius!
get a sense of humour people. and of course it was about cinema - an hommage to silent film, and an hommage to the fun essential to movie making (which he quite clearly had making this non sense short).

anyway it's been a while what did you think of his segment?