It's the adventure of two friends who decide to write about a fictional murder, or they thought, with unpredictable consequences.
The mystery of the road to Sintra is a literary duel written on four hands, one off the genius of Eça de Queiroz and other with his disturbing writing Ramalho Urtigão. The film is a fictionalized story of real event that took place in the summer of 1870. A challenge that ends up influencing the lives of both writers in so much unexpected turn of events. This feature film by Jorge Paixão da Costa is excellent. I liked the way the filmmaker intersperses the action, like chapters, the way we make an entrance to the both mundane living of this writers and the plot of the feuilleton progresses, as the lives of its creators complicates. The script is very good because it creates a certain cadence that culminates in moments of great suspense, sprinkled on a doomed love story, much like the romanticism of the time and was well integrated by the screenwriters. The historical background is very interesting because this is an industrial society; the emergence of the bourgeoisie is clear in this film and is well characterized. The all-star cast enhances the quality of this film, in general, as a whole are wonderful.
