But despite a good movie in terms of performance , images and scenes it does not come up totally to its ambitious psychological purpose. The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa is dead nut he appears to his heteronymus Ricardo Reis to check what he is up to having returned from Brazil after a 16 yeara absence. The dialogues between them are psychological fascinating and almost the whole movie is about that with the exception of a few sentimental contacts Ricardo has with two girls much youger than him. The atmosphere of the movie is a bit too depressive but it can be seen with some vision and intelectual enjoyment.
Review of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
