When your novel's muse is your wife and the story starts writing itself.
In Lisbon, Marcelo writes a novel, using the life of his own wife, Beatriz, as the main inspiration to the story. The creative process of the book takes a dangerous path, ultimately compromising the love they feel for each other.
Acting
Estiano and Guizé weaponize intimacy until it cuts both ways.
Direction
Graça makes Lisbon feel like a character watching them unravel.
Writing
Script eats its own tail deliciously—fiction devouring marriage.
Director
Alberto Graça
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 2010s wave of Portuguese cinema examining middle-class creative malaise.
The film's Portuguese title 'Beatriz' drops Marcelo entirely—telling you who really owns this story.
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