Director Chico Teixeira, star Carla Ribas and a fine cast reject melodrama for verisimilitude
di Carina Chocano The Los Angeles Times
Alice, a manicurist in her 40s, lives in a small apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, with her husband, her elderly mother and her three teenage sons. Her husband cheats on her with very young girls, one of her sons is a hustler and another is a thief, and her lonely mother -- whom Alice's husband wants in a nursing home -- is losing her eyesight.
If this description makes "Alice's House," the first narrative feature by Brazilian documentary maker Chico Teixeira, sound histrionic or melodramatic or like a slow dive into a slough of despond, it's because even the simplest description can't quite convey the low-key naturalism of this powerful, lapidary little movie. [...]
di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (3229 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 gennaio 2008
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