Fresh
The production design and costumes are immaculate, while Ruiz's camera glides around soirees, ducks under tables and peers from behind curtains.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Mysteries of Lisbon
An epic life he could only imagine
2010 · 4h 27m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Raúl Ruiz
Overview
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Director and cast
- Raúl Ruiz Director
- Adriano Luz as Padre Dinis & Sabino Cabra & Sebastião de Melo
- Maria João Bastos as Ângela de Lima
- Clotilde Hesme as Elisa de Montfort
- Afonso Pimentel as Pedro da Silva Adulto
- João Arrais as Pedro da Silva Criança
- Albano Jerónimo as Conde de Santa Bárbara
- João Baptista as D. Pedro da Silva
- Martin Loizillon as Padre Dinis Jovem
- Julien Alluguette as Benoit
- Rui Morisson as Marquês de Montezelos
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A sumptuous unravelling of secrets wrapped in tantalizing stories that gradually interconnect the lives of an ensemble of characters who seduce, betray and defend each other in the years surrounding the Peninsular War.
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Based on the sprawling 19th-century novel by Camilo Castelo Branco, Chilean director Raul Ruiz renders an equally sprawling tale filled with love and war, violence and vengeance and the search for identity.
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
Fresh
This isn't one of those epics that uses length as a bludgeon. Rather than sweep, the movie spirals, twisting its viewpoint to reveal tales within tales.
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
Fresh
A sprawling 19th century novel filtered through the mind of a trickster filmmaker, the late Raul Ruiz, who both delights in and subverts his wildly complex and melodramatic source material.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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