I picked up this movie after reading the novel completely, although I read the book for a whole year. The characters and scenes are extremely similar to what I have in my mind, but the movie is always bound by time, and many people and things are not explained, such as Prado's wife and her girlfriend in high school... I thought the whole story would be described by the author. Portuguese is mixed with French, because English does lack those charms, and perhaps what is missing is the city that has always been brooding about: Isfahan, but I understand, after all, this is a movie. This is the only novel where I have excerpted a lot of notes, no way, the text is too tempting. Movies can be scored eighty minutes, because always hope for some kind of depth...
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