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Mysteries of Lisbon

Mistérios de Lisboa (Mysteries of Lisbon)

2010

Raoul Ruiz

Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme ...

7.2

961

Drama. Mystery Mysteries of Lisbon plunges us into a veritable whirlwind of adventures and escapades, coincidences and revelations, sentiments and violent passions, vengeance, love affairs, all wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage that takes us from Portugal to France, Italy, and as far as Brazil. In this Lisbon of intrigue and hidden identities, we encounter a series of characters all somewhat linked to the destiny of Pedro da Silva, orphan in a boarding ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Edelstein New York Magazine	"In 'Mysteries of Lisbon', the prolific Chilean-born director and egghead Raúl Ruiz has achieved something remarkable, at once avant-garde and middlebrow: the apotheosis of the soap opera"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Intensely and captivatingly strange (...) The cinema of Ruiz offers enormous and unique pleasure (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A masterly tale about lives and stories and the art of their telling (...) Mr. Ruiz keeps you hooked"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is hypnotically beautiful, playful, coiling between past and present (...) All of the characters are memorable (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney The Independent	"A majestically eerie ending makes you look back and wonder what the film was really about (...) 'Mysteries of Lisbon' is a subtle delirium, and a magnificent late magnum opus"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Chicago Reader	"'Mysteries of Lisbon' has a strong sense of momentum (...) Energetic and fun (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"It’s more a poignantly apt swansong than a perfect one. The storytelling is soap-operatic, and somehow intentionally wispy (...) One of the loveliest films ever shot digitally (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Storytelling of breathtaking scale and grandeur, even if the complex plotting may twist your synapses along the way (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"For all its visual invention and full-blooded melodrama, 'Mysteries Of Lisbon' never tilts to full-on crazy."	POS
United States	Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"[A] darkly elegant melodrama (...) Ruiz is nothing if not a master of tone and pacing"	POS

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