While many may state Manoel de Oliveira to be one of the leading Portuguese directors nowadays, this movie is simply boring.
While it actually manages to tell the story of Father Antonio Vieira, it does such task in a way that most of the audience will be sleeping in their chairs at the end of the session, with such a lack of action and interest.
Most of the movie can actually be simplified in a single phrase, "voices while seeing a certain static scenario", and that's certainly all you can hope to get from this movie.
I have to admit that containing some important Portuguese and Brazilian actors you could be expecting an interesting movie, but their actions in the actual content and story are certainly minimized when you see such an horrible (and boring) content in the screen.
While it actually manages to tell the story of Father Antonio Vieira, it does such task in a way that most of the audience will be sleeping in their chairs at the end of the session, with such a lack of action and interest.
Most of the movie can actually be simplified in a single phrase, "voices while seeing a certain static scenario", and that's certainly all you can hope to get from this movie.
I have to admit that containing some important Portuguese and Brazilian actors you could be expecting an interesting movie, but their actions in the actual content and story are certainly minimized when you see such an horrible (and boring) content in the screen.