What work , written by Augustina Bessa Luis , was inspired by " The Night Watch " ?
Oliveira has stated that whereas most film adaptations of literature attempt to adapt the narrative to film , he wanted instead to adapt " the text " of Branco 's novel , much like Jean - Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet 's " The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach " was a film more about music itself than about its own story .