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Fernanda Montenegro,
Fernanda Montenegro,
Raul Cortez,
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Marcos Bernstein,
Marcos Bernstein
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: Strand Home Video
: Drama, Foreign, Latin America, Brazil
: 98 min.
: Portuguese
: English
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Regina (Fernanda Montenegro) is a retired divorcée living in Rio de Janeiro. She's estranged from her only son and his family because he's invited his father to live with him. She's devoted to her dog, Betina, and occupies her spare time as a member of the police force's special senior citizen program. Regina, operating under the code name "Snow White" spends a lot of her time looking for wrongdoers to report to the police. She spends her evenings looking out her apartment window with binoculars into the windows of her neighbors across the street. One night, she watches as an older gentleman appears to give his bedridden wife a lethal injection. She reports it to the police, but they back off when they learn that the gentleman, Carmago (Raul Cortez), is a respected member of the judiciary. Alcides (Luiz Carlos Persy), Regina's police contact, gets so much political flack that he kicks Regina out of the program. But Regina takes it upon herself to continue the investigation on her own. Carmago notices that he's been seeing her around a lot, and, thinking it's a coincidence, asks Regina out on a date. She accepts for the sake of her "investigation," but before long the two find that they are really hitting it off. The Other Side of the Street was co-written and directed by Marcos Bernstein, who co-wrote the script for Central Station, the film that earned Montenegro an Academy Award nomination. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
September 9, 2005 - 2:17 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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About equally good and not-so, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET is slow-paced and rather obvious. (Comparion's to "Rear Window" ar embarrassing, however, and would indicate a viewer's utter lack of knowledge about genre, style and lots more.)
On the plus side, the film features the wonderful Fernanda Montenegro ("Central Station" and writer/director Marcos Bernstein's earlier screenplay "Foreign Land"). She is exceptional, as always, and is surrounded by other good actors. The movie's saving grace is that nobody (cast or filmmaker) pushes too hard; what could easily slip into caricature stays believable and quiet.
Touching on the state of Brazil today--the income disparity between classes, the police and their "tactics," love and sex among the older generation--unfortunately the film never goes far enough in terms of originality (in incident or dialog) to make it stand out and shine. |
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