Kardec

Kardec is an extraordinary period film. Good screenplay, breathtaking cinematography and amazing performances. Storytelling here, also well directed by Assis, is meaningful. Very highly recommended !!

A brazilian movie about a french writer? Hell, why not? But I think there are tons of subjects or stories that could be more interesting. It's sadly because the production values are very good, but the script, the dialogues, the story itself is laughable and flat. The director tried to give us a melodramatic movie in order to to feel empathy for Karnec, but it really just makes us feel, meh. Next.

It could be a very good movie, it has a good plot, but it's a terrible. The acting is horrible and the speak lines aren't even close of real. The protagonist does not seem to have faced any real problems. Per example, there's a scene which there's a problem to resolve and a group of people are talking about this very calm, more than necessary, and one person appears "shouting" saying "calm down!" but everybody already is calm. I don't understanding why the people are giving good rates to it.

I don't like most foreign films, but this was surprisingly well-done. Beautiful backgrounds. Good acting. Decent pacing of the movie throughout.

I was already a fan of Kardec's work, so I found the movie facinating.

If I didn't know Kardec's work, I would probably find this to be simply an interesting period piece about some spiritual phenomenon in 19th-century France.

It's the origin story of a religion/philosophy called Spiritism that has become very influential in Brazil.

Like the Scientology grabbed Hollywood and it's actors, a major branch of brazilian movie insdustry is operated by Spiritsts. They make every movie in the same soap opera style. Boring and predictable