Everything's Alright

Juarez Barata (Paulo Gracindo) and his wife Elvira (Fernanda Montenegro), a middle-class, middle-aged couple from Rio de Janeiro, decide to renovate their Copacabana apartment and chaos ensues. Through a series of vignettes, director/co-writer Arnaldo Jabor exposes — with explosive humor and sharp criticism — the social, political and cultural differences that separate (but not quite) Brazilian social classes in this operatic, frantic, carnival-like film that is a rarity among Brazilian comedies: it’s not slapstick, it’s not vulgar (though it has its share of scatological jokes), it’s witty and it’s hilarious — you laugh while keeping your brain working. —IMDb