Hyde Park Picture House

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Mysteries of Lisbon (Misterios De Lisboa)

Time
On 5th February - 1.40 PM
Other showings
From 5th February - 5th February
Starring:
Adriano Luz, Maria Joao Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clothilde Hesme
Director
Dir. Raoul Ruiz
Duration
266mins
Country
PT/FR
Year
2010
Synopsis:

This epic retelling of the novel by Camilo Castelo Branco has been widely hailed as the summation of Ruiz' career.

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 school. Father Dinis, a descendent of the aristocratic libertines, later becomes a hero who defends justice, a countess maddened by her jealousy and set on her vengeance, a prosperous businessman who had mysteriously made his fortune as a bloodthirsty pirate; these and many more all cross in a story set in the 19th century and all searching for the true identity of our main character.

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The Mysteries of Lisbon
Critical reaction:

  • A MAGNIFICENT LATE MAGNUM OPUS from a director who was one of kind.

    Vast and magnificent...MYSTERIES is strikingly handsome and well-dressed...as stately as the great costume dramas of Luchino Visconti.

     

    Jonathan Romney, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

  • This is the last completed work from the remarkable and prolific Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz who died in August this year at the age of 70.

    A gorgeous, mesmeric spectacle, and one with great human warmth...Either way...Ruiz offers enormous and unique pleasure.

     

     

    Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN