Camilo (Luigi Baricelli) is a single man, who chases beautiful women everywhere. He meets Karen Albuquerque (Giovanna Antonelli) in a night-club and goes with her to her apartment. There, she threatens him with a gun to use Ecstasy and have sex with her (what a problem, to be obliged to have sex with Giovanna Antonelli !). Camilo has an OD and is saved in the hospital by Dr. Augusto Vilela (Ilya São Paulo), an old friend of him. Dr. Vilela is an ambitious and successful doctor, who aims to be the next director of the hospital. He abuses of the use of pills and has a gorgeous fiancée, Rita (Deborah Secco). They intend to get married as soon as Vilela is promoted to director. Rita is a shallow and unsecured young woman, who believes in horoscope and cartomancy. Dra. Antônia Maria dos Anjos (Sílvia Pfeifer) is the psychiatric of the hospital where Dr. Vilela works, and has Camilo and Rita as patients. The lives of these characters will be connected in a story with a 'surprising' end. 'A Cartomante' is a very disappointing movie. The story is confused and deceptive, and the characters are emotionally unstable. The ambient sound is horrible, and although spoken in Portuguese and in a DVD with 5:1 system, I had to use the English subtitles twice along the movie to understand parts of two dialogs. The soundtrack is excellent. Deborah Secco and Mel Lisboa have better performances as the centerfold of Playboy magazine than in this movie. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): 'A Cartomante' ('The Card-Reader')
Title (Brazil): 'A Cartomante' ('The Card-Reader')
