Nice Brazilian Movie, great production value, great sets and decorations. Brough me a ton of useful informations about Mr Rivail's personal biography and contributions to pivotal existencial questions we all have for shure, or at least should have. For those who are transcedentalists, this movie will greatly reinforce their beliefs. For those who are not, it will rise many urgent and necessary questions, of whitch none of us can escape. An honest, must see movies, even for haters. Don't let any prejudice keep you apart from this movie. It ideals with an unseen part of the nature that, even though we can't see, touch or fell it, is there.

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.

There are many high-quality films produced these days - this is certainly not one of them. Scripting is flat, acting is flat, direction, dull.

Then there is the question of the big hoax called "spiritism". After the devastation of the First World War and an especially deadly flu pandemic in 1918, people were desperate to know what happened after death. The journal "Scientific American" organised a contest to once and for all differentiate between scientific fact and fiction. Long story short: Spiritism was shown to be the hoax of the desperate that is was. It should have died a natural death then....but Brazilian film-makers seem to think it still sells films. Sad.