![]() Obsessed by the coincidence, Afonso scans more and more films, identifies his “double” as journeyman actor Daniel Santa Clara, and learns the performer’s real name: Antonio Claro. An unidentified supporting actor in the film is the image of Tertuliano himself, five years earlier. Protagonist Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a divorced high-school history teacher whose life is irretrievably altered when he watches a videotaped romantic comedy recommended to him by a colleague. ![]() ![]() ![]() The theme of shared identity, treated by such masters as Poe, Stevenson, and Dostoevsky, animates the 1998 Nobel winner’s latest. ![]()
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