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Alice's House (2008)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Carla Ribas, Vinicius Zinn, Ricardo Vilaça, Felipe Massuia, Berta Zemel
Screenwriter: Chico Teixeira, Julio Pessoa, Sabina Anzuategui, Marcelo Gomes
Producer: Patrick Leblanc
Reviews
Even though it sounds awfully depressing, there's something moving about watching people go at their lives with everything they have -- or don't have.
Very well-acted, especially by (Carla) Ribas, this is a tense drama of friendship, family and deceit that explores a wide spectrum of raw emotions.
[The] restrained, elliptical style, focused on details rather than confrontations, and the nuanced performances make this house a home.
Like a Brazilian telenovela unfolding in real time, the film fans its cards out slowly until we can see for ourselves the deck is stacked.
Teixeira brings his camera into her home and quietly records the details of her daily life. The result is a carefully observed film about one woman's growing dissatisfaction.
Although the characters are steeped in the culture of telenovelas and voodoo superstition, Alice's House is a subtly flavorful slice of life rather than a steamy potboiler.
The capable cast, director’s documentarian past and ambient soundtrack heighten the film’s real-life sensibility, perfectly capturing the working-class life of a São Paulo family.
In her first leading role, Carla Ribas joins the fast-growing ranks of middle-aged Latina actresses whose performances resonate with a beguiling mixture of emotional complexity and sexual maturity.
In a remarkably assured, no-frills feature debut, Brazilian documentarian Chico Teixeira draws a vivid portrait of marital and familial dysfunction.
Ribas has justifiably won a shelf of awards for her portrayal.
The juiciest bits happen off camera, yet their consequences are riveting, thanks in no small measure to sympathetic performances by Carla Ribas and Berta Zemel.
The gritty location shooting, the absence of a soundtrack and the casting of non-professionals in key roles help capture an all-important sense of place with almost documentary precision.
Teixeira elicits extraordinary performances from his entire cast.
Writer-director Chico Teixeira, who started out making documentaries, watches from afar as his middle-class characters go about their day-in, day-out activities, most of which revolve around sex.
Some stories, Teixeira is wise enough to realize, are best left unadorned.
What lingers after watching Alice's House are not the moments of conflict but the inexorable rhythms of daily life.
Chico Teixeira's languid, libidinous Alice's House is the best argument against marriage and motherhood to appear in many a year.
Free of the usual social pathology, intimate dysfunction proves more than capable of holding our interest, as it would anywhere.
A Brazilian slice-of-life drama set in a working-class household where a disappointed woman undergoes a midlife meltdown.
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