A Casa de Alice (2007)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Chico Teixeira

Writer:

Chico Teixeira (writer)

Release Date:

15 November 2007 (Brazil)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

In every house you never know what secrets lie behind the front door

Plot:

Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children...

Plot Keywords:

Beauty Parlor | São Paulo | Character Name In Title

Awards:

12 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Carla Ribas	...	Alice
Berta Zemel	...	Dona Jacira
Vinicius Zinn	...	Lucas
Ricardo Vilaça	...	Edinho
Felipe Massuia	...	Junior
Zé Carlos Machado	...	Lindomar
Renata Zhaneta	...	Carmen
Luciano Quirino	...	Nilson
Mariana Leighton	...	Thais
Dirce Couto	...	Neide
Jorge Cerruti	...	Toninho
Talita Craveiro	...	Vanessinha
Elias Andreato	...	Seu Gabriel
Claudio Jaborandy	...	Evanildo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Cícero Augusto	...	Carlinhos Abranches
Thiago de Mello	...	Dr. Olavo - the optometrist
Monicah Duarte	...	Hairdresser
Francisco Gaspar	...	Hairdresser
Roberto Leite	...	Taxi passenger
Marcos Pedroso	...	Client in car

Also Known As:

Alice's House (International: English title)

Runtime:

Brazil:92 min

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Brazil:12 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Company:

Superfilmes

Trivia:

The film was shot entirely on location in São Paulo, Brazil, using a real apartment and a real beauty salon.

A good story

i watched this at the Sydney film festival and thought the performances were stunning. they do a lot with the little resources available to them. this film reminded me of new-wave french cinema with its existential predominance of the Greek tragedy theme. it was well casted and the subtitles were definitely done well. its a completely underrated film that should have been bigger but its not. perhaps it has been bad marketing? though if you are looking for a city of god type film, look elsewhere. this is independent cinema at its finest. i wonder what film makers such as these would have done with a larger budget!!! Alice is a women tied down with her family but longs for liberation of the boredom and monotony of her life. she wont find it in her taxi driver husband or her apathetic kids who most of the time watch television. yet we see a light and an optimism coming from the grandmother who is going blind, though most of the family ignore her because they are stuck in their own selfish ways.