Invisible Life

Name: Invisible Life
Genre: Drama
Released: December 20, 2019
Duration: 139 min
Rating: 81
Cast: António Fonseca, Carol Duarte, Cristina Pereira, Fernanda Montenegro, Flávia Gusmão

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ARP Sélection | Release Date: December 20, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: António Fonseca, Carol Duarte, Cristina Pereira, Fernanda Montenegro, Flávia Gusmão, Flavio Bauraqui, Gillray Coutinho, Gregório Duvivier, Hugo Cruz, Júlia Stockler, Luana Xavier, Maria Manoella, Nikolas Antunes, Samuel Toledo

Summary: Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to liveRio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other. … Expand

Director: Karim Ainouz

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 139 min

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Monica Castillo

Dec 20, 2019

Aïnouz’s Invisible Life reflects the kind of love story we rarely see on-screen, and it’s a gem worth discovering for yourself. Read full review

David Rooney

May 25, 2019

The lustrous textures, boldly saturated colors and lush sounds of The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao serve to intensify the intimacy of Karim Ainouz's gorgeous melodrama about women whose independence of mind remains undiminished, even as their dreams are shattered by a stifling patriarchal society. Read full review

Justin Chang

Dec 19, 2019

It’s a drama of resilient women, thoughtless men and crushingly unrealized dreams, told with supple grace, deep feeling and an empathy that extends in every direction. Read full review

Guy Lodge

May 29, 2019

Anyone already familiar with Aïnouz’s work will know to expect a florid sensory experience, but even by the Brazilian’s standards, this heartbroken tale of two sisters separated for decades by familial shame and deceit is a waking dream, saturated in sound, music and color to match its depth of feeling. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Jan 8, 2020

The film is so alive, so joyous and raucous at times, that the empathy you feel for these characters is all the more poignant and the catharsis is well earned. This is a film you fall into, like an embrace you wish two sisters would hold, but one that the world denies them. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Dec 31, 2019

The progression of the story is steadily downward, and at times the style flirts with melodrama, the mood with moroseness. But in the film’s third act, masterfully staged by filmmaker Karim Aïnouz (who co-wrote the screen adaptation with Inez Bortagaray and Murilo Hauser), it takes a giant leap, both temporally and emotionally. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Dec 18, 2019

Only rarely does Karim Aïnouz allow for loopholes to refreshingly emerge from the film’s stylistic deadlock. Read full review

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katezoe

Jun 3, 2020

One of the best films of 2020. A beautiful story about sisterhood and being a woman in a male dominated world. The cinematography is gorgeous.

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ftomaz

Dec 21, 2019

When the love from the Tropicos is everthing than already search for, this story come out from the womb of art.

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juangalmeidx

Mar 18, 2020

ao terminar o filme, não pude encontrar nenhuma palavra boa o suficiente para descrevê-lo e sinto que ainda sou incapaz reduzi-lo a meras palavras... então, só tenho a dizer o seguinte: filme do milênio!!!!!

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