i be not make big assumption on the fact that this for sure be a very and very free adaptation from the work of eça de queiroz and and i must say that this free adaptation form the book a a lot of possible good idea and character . the problem be the way that be do and without any care and without any taste and just a rumble of bad taste clichés everywhere . the script be so fake and the character so unreal that make petty seeing nice actor a unas and bryner and morgado and lagarto and others and lose themselves in a net of whatever except cinema or storytelling . for my surprise the newcomer jorge corrula and soraia chaves bravely stick in their performance and but you can see them lose like a drifted boat without any direction . and talk about direction and this seem to be something totally miss on this movie where the director . everything be bad taste while the frame be whatever and and whenever and the use of hand camera without any justified reason and the light design that should build environment doesn not exist ( and no excuse that the all point be a dark real story ) . the problem overall in this try to be film be that a no taste and or very and very bad taste . it sad to see jorge and soraia melt away in such fake and gratuity sex scene and paint here and there trough out the movie like close narrative hole or use a fakes transition motif . maybe carlos coelho da silva should see the 2002 carlos carrera adaptation of the same book of eça and get the felling of how to build a true movie .