In the 60's, in a street in Rio de Janeiro, Edu (Flávio Migliaccio) meets his vanished friend Paulo (Paulo José). Paulo, a typical tropical Don Juan of the 60's, tells Edu what has happened with him along the last years. First, he met Alice (Leila Diniz), the fiancée of his friend Leopoldo (Ivan de Albuquerque) in a Christmas party in his apartment. He had a crush on the girl, and some days later, he started dating her. Then, she moved to his place and they started living together. One day, Alice traveled to Curitiba to visit her nephew, and Paulo went to a private 'party' with some former girlfriends of him. Alice decided to return earlier to Rio, and found that he cheated her. She broke the engagement with him and Paulo realized how important she was to him. The surprising end of the story cannot be told to avoid spoilers.
This nostalgic and naive Brazilian romantic comedy of the 60's is a simple low budget movie, but also very charming, especially for us, Brazilians. It is delightful to see a twenty-two year-old Leila Diniz, a Brazilian actress and symbol of Rio de Janeiro, who prematurely died at the age of twenty-seven in a plane crash in India. The director Domingos de Oliveira was the former husband of Leila Diniz, and is considered by many cinema lovers as the 'Brazilian version of Woody Allen'. It is also a pleasure to see the Rio de Janeiro of my childhood, without the construction boom of the last decades. Further, it rejoices to see the behavior of this very naive generation, showing the beginning of the woman liberation, when smoking was 'in' or you could date in a car parked on the street without fearing being assaulted. By the way, the title is an allusion to Paulo, who could have 'all the women in the world', but chose Alice to be with him. This movie is a must-see for Brazilians over forty years old and lovers of cinema. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): 'Todas as Mulheres do Mundo' ('All the Women in the World')
This nostalgic and naive Brazilian romantic comedy of the 60's is a simple low budget movie, but also very charming, especially for us, Brazilians. It is delightful to see a twenty-two year-old Leila Diniz, a Brazilian actress and symbol of Rio de Janeiro, who prematurely died at the age of twenty-seven in a plane crash in India. The director Domingos de Oliveira was the former husband of Leila Diniz, and is considered by many cinema lovers as the 'Brazilian version of Woody Allen'. It is also a pleasure to see the Rio de Janeiro of my childhood, without the construction boom of the last decades. Further, it rejoices to see the behavior of this very naive generation, showing the beginning of the woman liberation, when smoking was 'in' or you could date in a car parked on the street without fearing being assaulted. By the way, the title is an allusion to Paulo, who could have 'all the women in the world', but chose Alice to be with him. This movie is a must-see for Brazilians over forty years old and lovers of cinema. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): 'Todas as Mulheres do Mundo' ('All the Women in the World')
