Um Copo de Cólera (1999)

Director:

Aluisio Abranches

Writers:

Aluisio Abranches (writer)
Raduan Nassar (novel)

Release Date:

7 April 2000 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm...

Plot Keywords:

Female Frontal Nudity | Ejaculation | Female Nudity | Breast Sex | Explicit Sex

Awards:

6 nominations

Cast

Alexandre Borges
Ruth de Souza
Lineu Dias
Júlia Lemmertz
Marieta Severo

Also Known As:

A Glass of Rage

Runtime:

70 min

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Hong Kong:III | Italy:VM18

A Very Aggressive Discussion Between Lovers

Alexandre Borges and Júlia Lemmertz are lovers. He lives like an eremite, isolated in a country house with a small creation of rabbits, and she is a journalist. The story begins with them meeting each other and without any words, going to a bedroom and having hot and almost explicit sex. On the next day, while having breakfast, he notes that ants have made a hole in his live fence. He poisons them and begin a very aggressive discussion with her. The analogy between the hole in the life fence and the `opening' the character of Júlia Lemmertz in doing in his private life is the trigger for the discussion. She lives the place, but in the night she is back to him. I myself did not like this movie. The excessive sex in the beginning, and the theatrical discussion along most part of the story are very boring. Nobody uses the vocabulary or the construction of the sentences like the central pair do along a hot discussion. The discussion is too much artificial for my taste. In a play of a theater, this text may work, but in a film, it does not. The DVD is excellent, containing many additional matters. Alexandre Borges and Júlia Lemmertz are married in real life, but they explain in the DVD that the sperm scene was made using a special liquid injected in a syringe. My vote is four.