Mysteries of Lisbon (Blu-ray)
An epic life he could only imagine
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 17, 2012
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Melvil Poupaud, Malik Zidi, Adriano Luz, Clotilde Hesme, Léa Seydoux & Ricardo Pereira | |
Directed by | Raoul Ruiz | |
Composition by | Jorge Arriagada |
Entertainment Reviews:
All these could be seen as gratuitous flourishes of auteur style, but they serve to undermine the naturalistic illusion, to remind us that everything we see is an effect of narration - and perhaps, more than that, of dream.
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Sight and Sound
A masterly tale about lives and stories and the art of their telling, MYSTERIES OF LISBON is also an elegiac meditation on love lost and rediscovered through misted memory.
New York Times
A symbol for cinema in times of YouTube. [Full review in Spanish]
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Clarín
[M]ost of all, this surpassingly eerie saga is surely Ruiz's very own THE TEMPEST...
Sight and Sound
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [L]avish, elegant, operatic....It is hypnotically beautiful, playful, coiling between past and present.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/5 --
This über-snooze of a costume epic, based on a Portuguese novel, has flickers of surreal invention like valedictory memory spasms.
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Financial Times
Rating: 5/5 --
The production design and costumes are immaculate, while Ruiz's camera glides around soirées, ducks under tables and peers from behind curtains.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Portuguese filmmaker Raúl Ruiz directed this epic-scale adaptation of Camilo Castelo Branco's historical novel about people looking for truth behind each other's facades in 19th century Portugal. Father Dinis (Adriano Luz) is a man of faith who often finds himself trading one personality for another as he serves different people in different ways. When João (João Luís Arrais), a teenager born out of wedlock and raised in an orphanage, begins asking questions about his parents, Dinis arranges for him to be introduced to his mother, who turns out to be a wealthy countess, Angela (Maria João Bastos). While Angela is married, her jealous and short-tempered husband is not the father, and when word spreads that she is carrying another man's child, the Marquis of Montezelos (Rui Morisson) arranges for the biological father to be killed and hires an outlaw named the Knife-Eater (Ricardo Pereira) to murder the child after it is born. However, the plan goes awry, and in time the Knife-Eater redeems himself; meanwhile, the unexpected connections between the characters evolve with the passage of time. MISTÉRIOS DE LISBOA (aka MYSTERIES OF LISBON) was an official selection at the 2010 New York Film Festival.
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