Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

Original title

Mistérios de Lisboa

Directed by

Raúl Ruiz

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil, France, Portugal

Runtime

4h 32m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A long period drama set in 18th and 19th century Europe. The story follows many characters with secret identities and tangled love affairs against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.

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What happens

Mysteries Of Lisbon (Portuguese: Mistérios De Lisboa) is a 2010 Portuguese epic period melodrama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz based on an 1854 novel of the same name by Camilo Castelo Branco. The movie's running time is 272 minutes. It played as a miniseries in 60-minute installments in some countries. The film has won nine awards and been nominated for eight more. The plot of Mysteries Of Lisbon is rich with coincidences, plot twists, multiple narrators, disguises, and flashbacks-within-flashbacks. Every major character possesses at least two identities, and the story—which hopscotches around Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries—is set against the Napoleonic Wars and includes pirates, a woman hellbent on avenging the death of her twin brother, and at least four different love triangles. Above all, Mysteries Of Lisbon is about the mechanics of storytelling and imagination. Since its release the movie is has been hailed as Ruiz's masterpiece, one of the finest movies from 2010s and of the 21st century, one of the best historical, melodrama and epic movies of all time, as well one of the best and greatest Portuguese movies ever made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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