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MYSTERIES OF LISBON or half a day to kill

It's really not easy to get an opinion on this monumental work of the prolific Raul Ruiz, who was for me first experience of cinema which was told as well ... and so much evil.

Both say at the outset, 4:26 into a theater for audiences like us, accustomed to mainstream formats reaching only rarely 3am ... it's long ... Yet it seems that this unusually long attract customers as a curious little animal on the lookout for any experience oversized , either through interest in the thing or the expectation of the effect will happen when it will announce next Sunday at his aunt between pear and cheese he screwed a film of four and a half hours without flinching.
It's long and at the same time, we do not see how Ruiz could have addressed the proliferation of sub-plots of Mysteries Lisbon in less time without removing allowing the story to keep all his binder . Binding a bit scratched by this cut central longer intended to allow the public to stretch their legs that mark a real break in the narrative.
The first part is reminiscent of a certain Barry Lyndon , absolute masterpiece of storytelling and recovery by the master Kubrick, in which Ruiz eyeing without robbing in memory, using the plans Overall, the clip and the camera moves in slow motion with enjoyable brio frankly. He does not forsake his illustrious elder in the second part, welcoming even piecemeal, especially in a scene shot from a fixed dual deliciously theatrical. Is it by fatigue, or because of this interval quite questionable, or perhaps by its fewer of surprises and revelations of all kinds, but this second piece would tend to slip from time to time, when he engages in face-to-face dialogues, opting for a more standard editing and sometimes even TV (logic, for implemented initially thought for the small screen).

In its final stretch as Mysteries Lisbon recovers its superb, leading us slowly towards the true-false twist in a final deluge of winking shrewdly revealing, recalling the countless smile ramifications of this mammoth work and making us forget that we have suddenly to spend all afternoon sitting in an armchair movie.

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Lisbon Mysteries of Raul Ruiz - 4:26 - Dist. : Alfama Films - Released: 20/10/2010