What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
Francis Frappat
as Paul
André Marcon
as Pierre
Márcia Breia
as Mrs. Casimira
Zita Duarte
as Gypsy
Canto e Castro
as The lame man of the lottery
Lia Gama
as Isadora
Raul Solnado
as Cemetery guard
Miguel Yeco
as Fernando Pessoa
Alexandre Zloto
as Father
Cécile Tanner
as Christine
João Maria Pinto
as The train controller
Sérgio Godinho
as The doorkeeper of the pension
