Disquiet (2010) User Reviews

Poor screenplay

[ricardo_salabert · 1/10 · 2 May 2020]

The 'Movie of Disquiet' is a screen adaptation of Fernado Pessoa's masterpiece 'The Book of Disquiet', published in 1982 (47 years after Pessoa's demise). The book is composed of fragmented pieces of diary-like texts from Bernardo Soares (one of Pessoa's alter-egos) with anotation-like texts from Pessoa himself, making it as complex as its author. The movie follows the exact same method, with little (if any) changes from the book's texts.

Thia movie is, in sum, a lazy work from director João Botelho who has graced us with great movie adaptations such as the award-winning 'Os Maias'.

Fernando Pessoa em cinema

[artursquaresma · 2/10 · 27 April 2020]

Worst film I have ever seen, not because it is poorly constructed, but because the film is entirely citing certain texts from the Book of Dessassossego by Fernando Pessoa, a very complex writer and poet. There is no history, only walking.

The book are pieces, in which several writers, publishers, and people try to organize, but in FILM it shouldn't have been a choice. Poetry in film, never