Review of A Selva

I've seen A Selva. It's a Portuguese/Spanish/Brazilian production, with a Portuguese director. Good actors from Brazilian ranking, such as Maitê Proença, Claudio Marzo, Roberto Bonfim, Gracindo Júnior, Chico Díaz, José Dumont, and others, all highlighted by former careers on TV and in the movies. But their talents are spoiled, as if we could say they (the talents) were "pearls given to the pigs". The film is too schematic, too academic, too "square", like all TV Globo "videonovel" productions. The magnificent scenery is worthy to see. But the performances are all too much "correct",with no heart-giving, no delivery to the characters. The Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado (is he a relative to "our" excellent Brazilian actress Camila Morgado? if so, he has some things to learn with her...) works on a schematic line, without "incorporating" his dubious and ambiguous character, a monarchist dandy who exiles himself in the Rain Forest, running from Portugal after a revolution won by the republican branch of political society. There are much better things going on on movie screens countrywide. If you doubt me, go and see it. But don't complain I didn't warn you!