The Three Marias

Name: The Three Marias
Genre: Drama
Released: May 30, 2003
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 45

2003

METASCORE

Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

No score yet

tbd

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

tbd	Your Score
tbd	User Score No score yet

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Movie Details & Credits

Empire Pictures Inc. | Release Date: May 30, 2003

Summary: The interior of Brazil in the early 1970's: Firmino Santos Guerra, from a wealthy landed family, is abandoned by his fiancée, Filomena, who leaves him for his greatest enemy, Borges Capadocio. When Firmino extracts a bloody retribution decades later on Filomena's husband and sons, the widow turns to her three daughters as the instruments ofThe interior of Brazil in the early 1970's: Firmino Santos Guerra, from a wealthy landed family, is abandoned by his fiancée, Filomena, who leaves him for his greatest enemy, Borges Capadocio. When Firmino extracts a bloody retribution decades later on Filomena's husband and sons, the widow turns to her three daughters as the instruments of her revenge. (Empire Pictures)… Expand

Director: Aluisio Abranches

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 90 min

See All Details and Credits

Watch Now

Buy on

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

100

David Sterritt

This strikingly unusual movie is at once an old-fashioned melodrama, a boldly stylized spectacle, and a very grim fairy tale, acted and directed with originality and flair. Read full review

Deborah Young

Fresh and offbeat tale of vendetta. Read full review

Eric Campos

This Brazilian thriller blows a heck of a lot of hot air, but really doesn’t deliver on the ass-kickings it so threatens. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Abranches intends for a religious parable by way of Greek tragedy, but the film drowns in a morass of portentous signs and poetic symbols. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Its emotional climate is too extreme to invite identification, and its characters are too single-minded in their revenge to evoke pity, terror or even much interest. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

The film has all the pregnant pauses, exaggerated reaction shots and melodramatic scoring of an overripe telenovela, but, unlike a good soap opera, the sisters' separate story lines are clumsily balanced. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

The leaden pacing, somnambulant performances and incessant symbolism in nearly every shot will soon have you thinking that The Three Marias is three too many. Read full review

SEE ALL 9 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

No reviews yet.