Possible Loves
by Sandra Werneck
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Actor: Beth Goulart, Carolina Ferraz, Emílio de Melo, Irene Ravache, Murilo BenícioDirector: Sandra Werneck
Brand: TLA Releasing
Cinematographer: Walter Carvalho
Producer: Sandra Werneck
Editor: Isabelle Rathery
Producer: Elisa Tolomelli
Writer: Maya Werneck Da-Rin
Writer: Paulo Halm
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Portuguese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: TLA Releasing
Movie Reviews of Possible Loves
Movie Review: Amazing Love Scenarios: Any One Could be the "Real Thing"
Summary: 5 Stars
This Brazlian film pulls off what no American film I have ever seen could do: it provides an amusing and entertaining vision of what the lives of the main characters *could* be like if they followed different love interests and possiblities. Any of the three situations could be the real thing since each is a valid lifestyle. What makes the film totally captivating and riveting is the realization of how absolutely unique and vastly different each love possibilty really is. Each scenario is played to perfection by Murilo Benicio and Carolina Ferraz. The film was shown at eight different film festivals throughout the world and won the jury award selection at the Sundance Film Festival. It deserves a wider viewing audience. It will appeal to people who are open-minded about the many different facets of love.
This film is astonishing and outstanding because of the amazing acting abilities of Murilo Benicio who plays "Carlos" and Carolina Ferraz who plays "Julia". At first, this viewer was uncertain that in scenario one: Carlos the successful lawyer married to Maria was the same person/actor as the "second love possibility" Carlos who had divorced his wife, Julia and for three years was the gay partner of Pedro. In scenario three, the very same Carlos was a hedonistic spoiled young man who indulged his physical appetite for women, women of all kinds, while he lived with his mother Sonia. Presumably, he was seeking the right woman to marry, while he lived out his self-indulgent love fantasies.
The married Carlos meets Julia the artist after not seeing her for 15 years. He visits an art gallery opening where her work is exhibited. He begins reminscing about how she stood him up at the Rio theater where they were supposed to have a date. She explains her life as an artist. He introduces Julia to his wife, as a "friend from the past". Carlos the lawyer begins fantasizing about what he missed out by not having known Julia all these years. He has a solid but dull marriage which is missing one thing: passion. He is looking to rekindle the flame with Julia. When she calls him, he arranges a love tryst with her. Carlos misleads Julia to think that he left his wife for her and he misleads his wife Maria by telling her, he went on a two week business trip. Carlos is straddling the fence between the two women. Julia discovers he did not break up with his wife. Carlos ends up returning to Maria and his previous boring and predictable married life.
The second love possiblity is the most daring ... It shows Carlos and Pedro as a gay couple and Julia as a divorced mom who is raising Lucas, her seven year old son. Carlos has visiting rights and often spends time with Lucas, who knows full well his dad is in a gay relationship. In this life situation, Julia is more plain-looking and is very angry at Carlos for having divorced her for this newly discovered lifestyle. At one point when Lucas goes to visit his dad, he says to his mom something to the effect, I know I am not supposed to be alone with Pedro ...
In the third scenario, we meet Carlos as he is being awakened by his mom, while there is a lump moving around, next to him in bed. It turns out the lump is a young lady with body piercings, short black punk hair style, and a tattoo on her behind (noticed by his mother Sonia). Carlos discusses with a friend his personal desire to settle down with one woman and his male friend advises wisely, "you have to work at love for it to last". Carlos finds an ad in a magazine which helps people find their love interest "scientifically" via a computer program by matching people on their interests. When he fills out the questionairre, his responses are hilarious as he has conflicting answers: He wants a woman who is independent yet who also caters to his personal needs. Afterwards, he is given a cell/mobile phone tracking device which beeps when he gets close to the partner selected by the computer. Amazingly enough, while taking a walk, the beeper goes off and he bumps into Julia whose beeper is also alarming. She is a college friend from 15 years ago, who stood him up on a date at the Rio Theater. This Julia also is a successful artist, having travelled the world, she did relief work in Africa and Cuba. She exhibited her artwork in Milan and New York. They engage in a torrid love affair and Carlos truly believes she is "the one" until he introduces her to his mother at a disastrous dinner meeting. Julia took pills to calm herself down before the dinner and also she drank too much which provided the fuel for Sonia to reject her as an unsuitable mate for her son. In a most creative manner, scenario three brings Carlos and Julia together as they discover they truly *do* love each other. The film helps them recapture their hidden simmering love which is nearly destroyed by a series of unfortunate events ... yet ... after 15 years of waiting .. both Carlos and Julia find each other again. Erika Borsos (pepper flower)
Summary of Possible Loves
Fifteen years ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Julia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Fifteen years later, we follow three different "what if" versions of Carlos' life. This romantic comedy won the 2001 Sundance jury prize in Latin America cinema.Similar DVD Movies
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