Disquiet (2010)

Filme do Desassossego (original title)

120 min / 2010/ Portugal

Cinematic adaptation of the Livro do Desassossego (The Book of Disquiet) by the poet Fernando Pessoa.

Directed By: João Botelho

Written By: João Botelho, Fernando Pessoa

Starring: Alexandra Lencastre, Rita Blanco, Catarina Wallenstein, Ana Moreira, Filipe Vargas, Pedro Lamares

Lisbon, nowadays. A room in a house in Rua dos Douradores. A man invents dreams and establishes theories about them. The very essence of dreams becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself becomes matter in it's musical sonority. And, before our eyes, this music felt in our ears, in our brain, in our heart, spreads through the street where he lives, through the city that he loves most of all, and through the whole world. Disquieted movie about fragments of an infinite and trapped book, of an almost mad flamboyance, but, of a brilliant clarity. The solar moment of Fernando Pessoa's creation. The absolute and perfect loneliness of the I, outer and hopeless. God am I!, also wrote Bernardo Soares.

(Source: ardefilmes.org)