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Mysteries of Lisbon

Mistérios de Lisboa

A film by Raúl Ruiz

Starring Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Clotilde Hesme, Léa Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud

Premiere: 20 October 2010

«I was fourteen, and I didn’t know who I was at all...»

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.

  • Official website
  • 2010, Running time: 266 minutes, Format: 1.85, Sound: 5.1, VO PT/FR/IT ST PT/FR/ENGL/ESP

Release date

Available in
Blu-ray, DVD Digipack and DVD

Blu-ray

Language:

PORTUGUESE and FRENCH


Subtitles:

ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH and PORTUGUESE | Dubbed Version FRENCH

Disc features:

266 min | 2 x Blu-Ray Disc | 1080P High Definition 16x9 (1.85: 1) | Color | Audio 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio & 5.1 Dolby Digital | GENERAL AUDIENCE

Discs:

2

DVD Digipack

Bonus

(Film and TV Series)
• Interviews
• Making Of
• Deleted scenes
• TV & Radio
• Trailers
• Picture gallery
• Biographies
• DVD-ROM content
• Includes a Booklet and 10 Photographs of the Film

Language:

PORTUGUESE and FRENCH


Subtitles:

ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH and PORTUGUESE | Dubbed Version FRENCH

Disc features:

266 min | 6 x DVD 9: DUAL LA YER / PAL | Format 1.85: 1 - Screen 16/9 compatible 4/3 | Color | Audio 5.1 Dolby Digital | GENERAL AUDIENCE

Discs:

1

DVD

Language:

PORTUGUESE and FRENCH


Subtitles:

ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH and PORTUGUESE | Dubbed Version FRENCH

Disc features:

266 min | 2 x DVD 9: DUAL LAYER / PAL | Format 1.85: 1 - Screen 16/9 compatible 4/3 | Color | Audio 5.1 Dolby Digital | GENERAL AUDIENCE

Discs:

1

Cast

Adriano Luz - Father Dinis

Maria João Bastos - Ângela de Lima
Ricardo Pereira - Alberto de Magalhães
Clotilde Hesme - Elisa de Montfort
Afonso Pimentel - Pedro da Silva
João Luís Arrais - Pedro da Silva – Child
Albano Jerónimo - Count of Santa Bárbara
João Baptista - D. Pedro da Silva
Martin Loizillon - Sebastião de Melo
Julien Alluguette - Benoît de Montfort
Rui Morisson - Marquis of Montezelos
Joana de Verona - Eugénia
Carloto Cotta - D. Álvaro de Albuquerque
Maria João Pinho - Countess of Viso
José Manuel Mendes - Friar Baltasar da Encarnação


Special Appearences:
Léa Seydoux - Blanche de Montfort
Melvil Poupaud - Colonel Ernest Lacroze
Malik Zidi - Viscount of Armagnac
Margarida Vilanova - Marquise of Alfarela
Sofia Aparício - Countess of Penacova
Catarina Wallenstein - Countess of Arosa


Other Cast:
Américo Silva - Bailiff
Ana Chagas - Deolinda
André Gomes - Barão de Sá
António Simão - Novelist
Bernard Lanneau - Father Dinis (French voice)
Dinarte Branco - Dilettante
Duarte Guimarães - Registrar
Filipe Vargas - D. Paulo
Helena Coelho - Marquise of Santa Eulália
João Vilas Boas - Butler
José Airosa - Bernardo
Lena Friedrich - Maid
Marcello Urgeghe - Doctor
Marco D`Almeida - Count of Viso
Martinho da Silva - F.
Miguel Monteiro - Doctor
Nuno Távora - Dilettante
Paulo Pinto - D. Martinho de Almeida
Pedro Carmo - Gentleman
Vânia Rodrigues - D. Antónia

Crew

Director: Raul Ruiz

Producer: Paulo Branco
Screenplay by Carlos Saboga
Based on the Homonymous Novel by Camilo Castelo Branco
Cinematographer: André Szankowski (a.i.p)
Music: Jorge Arriagada and Luís Freitas Branco
Art Direction: Isabel Branco
Editing: Valéria Sarmiento and Carlos Madaleno
Production Manager: Ana Pinhão Moura
Ad: João Pinhão and José Maria Vaz da Silva
Sound: Ricardo Leal, Miguel Martins and António Lopes
Production Coordinators: Julita Santos and Anne Mattatia (France)
Casting Director: Patrícia Vasconcelos


Production: Clap Filmes
With the Participation of:
Alfama Films
ICA - MC
RTP
ARTE France
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Cofinova Développement


With The Support of:
Câmara Municipal de Oeiras
Câmara Municipal de Sintra
Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo
EGEAC
Grupo Nova Imagem
Turismo do Algarve
Santa Casa da Misericórdia
Genesis Panavision

  • Louis Delluc Award

    Best French Film of 2010

  • San Sebastian Film Festival

    Silver Shell – Best Director

  • International Press Academy

    Satellite Award for Best Foreign Film 2011

  • Satellite Awards

    ‘Best Art Direction and Production Design’ and ‘Costume Design’

  • Toronto Film Critics’ Circle

    Best Foreign Language Film 2011

  • 32nd London Critics’

    Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film 2011

  • Panorama of European Cinema

    Athens

  • Festival International de Toronto

    Selection Officielle 2010

  • The New York Film Festival 2010

    Official Selection

  • Festival International du Film de São Paulo

    Prix de La Critique 2010

  • Festival International du Film de Viena

    Selection Officielle 2010

  • London Film Festival

    Selection Officielle 2010

  • Torino Film Festival

    Selection Officielle 2010

  • Prémio Autores

    Meilleur Scénario 2011

  • 2011 Top 10 for Village Voice

    The New York Times, Film Comment, Indiewire, Slant

Raúl Ruiz

Raúl Ruiz

«As in his films, the life of this filmmaker is summed up in a word: unstoppable.»


In 1983, Serge Toubiana wrote in “Le cas Ruiz” (The Case of Ruiz), his introductory text in the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma Nº 345, the Raul Ruiz special edition: the most prolific filmmaker of our time, a man whose film credits are almost impossible to define given his diversity, splendour, and multiplicity with regard to production, for more than twenty years(…).


Poignantly emerging onto the international scene at the end of the 1970’s, Raul Ruiz turned out to be one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers in recent years, by presenting more intellectual entertainment through artistic experimentation than any other filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard.


Blazing his trail through his characteristic images and carefully honed sound, Ruiz is a guerrilla that, without compromise, assaults all preconceptions of cinematic art.


This frighteningly prolific figure has made over 100 films in the past 30 years, yet he has never adhered to any established filming style. He has worked in 35 mm, 16 mm and even video: making cinematic feature films, television programs for European distribution, as well as documentary films and works of fiction.


Ruiz’s career began in the vanguard theatrical movement, and between 1956 and 1962, he wrote more than 100 plays. In 1968, he completed his first film, Três Tristes Tigres (Three Sad Tigers), which immediately won him the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Film Festival.


By supporting the government of Salvador Allende, Ruiz was forced to abandon his country during the fascist coup of 1973. While living in exile in Paris, he was soon considered the enfant terrible of the Parisian scene. In 1983 the esteemed film magazine, Cahiers du Cinema dedicated an entire exclusive edition to him, an honour few filmmakers in the history of Global Cinema have received. The same issue praised him for his film The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979), calling it one of the world’s top ten films of the 1970’s, and praising Ruiz as one of the most important “French” filmmakers since Rohmer, Bresson and Godard.


Working with innovative directors of photography such as Diego Bonancia, Sacha Vierny, Henri Alekan and Ricardo Aranovitch, he brought back a bit of the magic of the French realists poetry, by exploring the worlds of manipulation, of impotence and of violence. He explores lighting, using different filters and mirrors, and thus he recreates a filmic reality, in a kind of kaleidoscope, which introduces his audience into the labyrinth of his representations and which allows us to become familiar with his fantastic exotericism.


Raul Ruíz is considered a unique hybrid in the history of cinema, he is well known among active mainstream filmmakers as a defender of the cinema of ideas, in which he is the prototype of the artisan that creates images in movement. To Ruiz, cinema is an invention, it is an alchemy where the director unites all the elements he sees fit, and constructs them through the shots he creates, the images registered in that moment, from the concepts he reinvents. The aesthetics of any given project are inherent to the work itself, and it is achieved through good directing.


Further admiration for this Master of the Cinema comes from his sheer genius: he takes on incredible cinematographic challenges and succeeds where others had thought it was impossible. One of the most significant moments of his career came in 1999, when he decided to adapt Marcel Proust’s Time Regained to the big screen, one of the world’s most prestigious literary works, that Joseph Losey and Visconti had both attempted to adapt to the cinema, and had failed. In his cult-like film, Ruiz surrounded himself with the likes of Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Emmanuelle Béart, Chiara Mastroianni, and along with producer Paulo Branco, produced one of the world’s most well known movies, having been sold in 22 countries as well as shown in primetime on the most prominent international television stations. It had a theatre attendance of over 670 000 moviegoers.


And yet Ruiz has always manifested an intimacy with some of the greatest writer/thinkers of all time, having adapted their work for the big screen throughout his career. In addition to the works of PROUST, he also adapted Jean GIONO in “Les Ames Fortes” (Savage Souls); P. Calderon DE LA BARCA in La Vie est un Songe (Life is a Dream); Robert Louis STEVENSON in Treasure Island; RACINE in Bérénice; Pieree KLOSSOWSKI in La Vocation Suspendue (The Suspended Vocation) and L’Hypothese du Tableau Volé (The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting) as well as KAFKA in La Colónia Penal (The Penal Colony), all of which are absolute reference points in the history of cinema.


Raul Ruiz is renowned and acclaimed the world over, and for the past thirty years, he has been present at all the major film festivals. He has been nominated four times for the PALME D’OR (Cannes), where he has also presided on the jury, in 2002. He has won a GOLDEN LEOPARD (Locarno), a SILVER BERLIN BEAR (Berlin), and a CÉSAR (France), and was a candidate for the GOLDEN LION (Venice). He has won the FIPRESCI PRIZE in Montreal on two occasions, in 2000 and 2002. He was honoured in Rotterdam, in 2004, with a tribute entitled “Raul Ruiz: An Eternal Wanderer”, and later in 2007, at the Rome Film Festival, a tribute that included the screening of 46 of his films.


Throughout his impressive career, Ruiz has created a profound partnership with producer Paulo Branco, which began in the early 1980’s. They worked together for the first time in Portugal, and then in France. Raul Ruiz has since filmed 8 feature films in Portugal, out of a total of 14 films that were produced or co-produced by Paulo Branco. Three of these films competed among the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. All the Raul Ruiz’s films produced by Paulo Branco were premiered in Portugal and in France, and most of them have premiered in other territories as well, specifically their most recent collaborations.


It is extremely difficult to establish a complete filmography of Raul Ruiz, given the various formats he has experimented with, and furthermore, it is almost impossible to create an exhaustive list of his films that have competed at the film festivals all over world.

Raul Ruiz is presently involved in a theatrical adaptation of Hamlet for the Teatro a Mil Theatre Festival in January 2011. In April, 2011, he has planned to once again collaborate with Paulo Branco on a new feature film.


As in his films, the life of this filmmaker is summed up in a word: unstoppable.


Selected Filmography:
- Ce Jour‐Là (2003)
- Les Âmes Fortes (2001)
- Combat d'Amour en Songe (2000)
- Comédie de L'innocence (2000)
- Le Temps Retrouvé (1999)
- Généalogies d'un Crime (1997)
- Trois Vies et une Seule Mort (1996)
- Fado Majeur et Mineur (1995)
- L´Œil Qui Ment (1992)
- L´Éveillé du Pont de l'Alma (1985)
- Les Destins de Manoel (1985)
- L'Île au Trésor (1985)
- Point de Fuite (1984)
- La Ville des Pirates (1983)
- Les Trois Couronnes du Matelot (1983)
- Le Territoire (1982)
- L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé (1978)
- La Vocation Suspendue (1978)

News about Mysteries of Lisbon

Raúl Ruiz retrospective in four films - In theaters from August 7th

We propose in the heart of summer, from August 7, to rediscover jointly on the big screen Three Lives and Only One Death (1996), Genealogies of a Crime (1997), Time Regained (1999) et Mysteries of Lisbon (2010).

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