User Reviews

I saw this movie yesterday and i was amazed by his quality! I kept wondering how is it possible that i had never seen this movie before (i'm Portuguese and it is a Portuguese movie directed ten years ago!).

The connection between the characters is not obvious at the beginning, in a Magnolia, Mulhand Drive kind of way, but we soon realizes that is a connection between the main characters (António and Rute) and the magic characters, Violeta and Gaspar.

This movie is one of the kind:

the dialogs say everything without great explanations. Just the day by day life of a men whose heart was recently broken. I think it has all main ingredients of a great story: friendship, love, sorrow and faith.

It is a modern tale, it combines the fairly tales of Sintra (portuguese village where Edgar Alan Poe lived) with practical issues (lack of work, drinking, broken friendships).

I think this is the right movie to answer the question in troubled times: "why am i facing this alone?"

you just have to be clever to understand the story, it isn't a movie to be seen by everyone.

This is a film about a man who got dumped by her girlfriend. He had to deal with his emotions. However, this film is so extremely bad that I could not believe that a film like this existed.

First, the story was a mess. No mention was given to the breakup, and the viewers have to guess this when the woman had a new boyfriend. Then, there were a lot of scenes in the middle of the film which had no purposes whatsoever. What were two people doing when they ran around in the woods? Why did policemen chase after them? No explanation was given. These scenes were scattered during the film, and made the film impossible to understand. Then there was another woman who had bad health. What was her purpose of her role? Was she the leading man's new girlfriend, or was she only sharing her flat with the man? What was the purpose of the scenes with a girl who need a brace to walk? She had no connection with the story. The film did not even explained who she was, or what she had to do with the story.

The pace of the film was painfully slow. There was so little happening in the 100 minutes of the time. In fact, even if something happened, I did not know at all. I did not understand one bit of the film, because the story itself was a mess. There was no story at all, just a bunch of unrelated scenes. During the film, I was waiting for the film to end, and when it ended, I thought it was such a bad ending because it was abrupt. I did not understand what the story was, and I got no message from the film.

The acting was bad too. The actors showed little emotions. Maybe this is because the actors did not know what they were supposed to do in this messy film!

I wonder why this film is shown in the European film festival. There were only about 10 viewers in the lecture hall! When the film finished everyone was saying that they thought the film was so bad. No one understood the plot of the film. I saw 600 films, and this is undoubtedly the worst film I have ever seen.