(rated R, 93 mins.) For anybody going through divorce, mid-life crisis, affairs, or internet romances, this poignantly adorable comedy covers the lives of eight people and how they somehow all intermix in the end.
Amy Irving stars in this sub-titled story that was the official Berlin Film Festival 2000 selection and opening night film at the Miami Film Festival. She’s elegant, charming, and seductive as a widowed American English teacher working in Rio de Janeiro where she shares an unexpected chemistry with her co-star Antonio Fagundes. The other couples names are nobody an American would recognize, but who cares. They are all brilliant performers that pull their weight in bringing together an ensemble story of intermingling worlds.
A favorite scene is the boring balding, lawyer who flies to Rio to meet his internet romance. He tells one of the cast, “corporate law is not exactly a babe magnet” so he tells the “Girl From Ipanema” he’s a “SoHo artist with a loft, named Gary” with waist long hair. A great woven tale that will have you sharing the hopes in fate and soulmates.