2011
Not Rated
Music Box Films
5 h 17 m

2011
Not Rated
Music Box Films
5 h 17 m

Summary The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over...

Directed By: Raúl Ruiz

Written By: Carlos Saboga, Camilo Castelo Branco

2011
Not Rated
Music Box Films
5 h 17 m

2011
Not Rated
Music Box Films
5 h 17 m

Mysteries of Lisbon

Name: Mysteries of Lisbon
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Released: 2011-08-05
Duration: 5 min 17 s
Rating: 82
Cast: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais, Vânia Rodrigues

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 21 Critic Reviews

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 18 User Ratings

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Directed By: Raúl Ruiz

Written By: Carlos Saboga, Camilo Castelo Branco

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Universal Acclaim Based on 21 Critic Reviews

86% Positive
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10% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 21 Critic Reviews

86% Positive
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100

Salon

Aug 4, 2011

Once you start to ride with the rapturous, gorgeous, digressive symphony of images and words and music in this film it's completely absorbing and unlike anything you've ever seen.

By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW

100

Variety

Aug 1, 2011

A handsomely mounted adaptation of the like-titled Portuguese novel, Ruiz's 4 1/2-hour epic establishes the essential ambiguity of its chameleonic characters from the get-go and proceeds thereby, with riveting results and revelations that continue right to the end.

By Rob Nelson FULL REVIEW

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Chicago Sun-Times

Sep 14, 2011

I got a little lost while watching Mysteries of Lisbon and enjoyed the experience. It's a lavish, elegant, operatic, preposterous 19th century melodrama, with characters who change names and seemingly identities, and if you could pass a quiz on its stories within stories, you have my admiration.

By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW

The A.V. Club

Aug 3, 2011

Mysteries Of Lisbon is an odd kind of epic: It's digressive and even trifling at times, and though a large cast wanders through the frame, the individual scenes tend to be focused on just two or three people, having winding conversations about political intrigue and affairs of the heart.

By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Aug 4, 2011

Made for European television and originally divided into six one-hour episodes, the movie now runs an absorbing, astonishingly fast four and a quarter hours.

By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

IndieWire

Aug 3, 2011

A four-and-a-half hour period piece littered with interconnected events spread across many years, it moves forward with fits of intrigue, interspersed with casual developments that deaden its momentum and call into question its monumental running time.

By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW

New York Daily News

Aug 5, 2011

The result is a dull, high-minded soap opera.

By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Clap Filmes, Alfama Films, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), ARTE, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Cofinova Développement, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Câmara Municipal de Oeiras, Camara Municipal de Sintra, Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo, Egeac, Grupo Nova Imagem, Turismo do Algarve, Santa Casa da Misericórdia, Genesis Panavision

Release Date Aug 5, 2011

Duration 5 h 17 m

Rating Not Rated

Genres

Tagline An Epic Life He Could Only Imagine

Website https://alfamafilms.com/en/film/mysteries-of-lisbon/?track=world_sales

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Adriano Luz

Padre Diniz

Maria João Bastos

Ângela de Lima

Ricardo Pereira

Alberto de Magalhães

João Arrais

Pedro da Silva (adolescente)

Vânia Rodrigues

Dona Antónia

Joana de Verona

Eugénia

Rui Morisson

Marquês de Montezelos

João Villas-Boas

Criado

Maria João Pinho

Condessa de Viso

Clotilde Hesme

Elisa de Montfort

Albano Jerónimo

Conde de Santa Bárbara

Martin Loizillon

Padre Dinis Jovem

José Airosa

Bernardo

Martinho Silva

José Salema

José Manuel Mendes

Frei Baltazar

São José Correia

Anacleta dos Remédios

Afonso Pimentel

Pedro da Silva

Julien Alluguette

Benoit

Raquel Dias

Adelaide

Malik Zidi

Visconde Armagnac

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