This beautifully realized work about the lives of women is simultaneously an exploration of the art of filmmaking and the act of performance. Eighty-three women who answered the filmmaker’s newspaper ad told their life stories in a studio, and twenty-three were selected to appear in the film. In June 2006 they filmed their stories in Teatro Glauce Rocha, a traditional theater in Rio de Janeiro. The following September, actresses performed these stories, daring audiences to distinguish between reality and performance. —MoMA
Eduardo Coutinho (b. May 11, 1933 in São Paulo) is an Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer. He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 popular Brazilian film, El ABC del amor near the beginning of his career. The film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. —wikipedia
And if it is only with the use of an empty theater, face to face with the interviewed Eduardo Coutinho that makes us think of all this, its direction is the strong point of the film, since he knows how to handle the unexpected, and with the impossibilities emotions in a very sensitive, making room for the unexpected. And turning it into a brilliant film, exciting and arousing. cinemaemcena.com.br
Coutinho dá substância à discussão sobre o limiar entre ficção e realidade a partir de um conceito cuja execução desafia, confunde e emociona.
