Rating: - Possible Loves: Possible Paths
I really enjoyed this movie. Julia stands Carlos up at the movies. What is Carlos to do? Leave? Wait and visit with the usher? Wait by himself? The movie takes up 15 years later. We get to see the results of Carlos's life based on choice he made when he was stood up. Will he get married, end up gay, or stay single and live with his mom? What will happen in each version when Julia reenters his life? The different scenarios are being played out at the same time, so you do have to watch Carlos's look to tell what scenario is currently being played. Overall a great movie with three good stories.
Rating: - Mediocre
I honestly don't understand what other reviewers find appealing about this trite, forced, thoroughly pedestrian romantic comedy. I suppose it could be said that the concept of 3 possible love scenarios being played against one another is unique enough, but the execution is annoyingly mediocre. The writing is dull and predictable and the characters are like cardboard cutouts. I agree with the only other reviewer who was unimpressed with the film when he described it as a boring "soap opera" - it has an air of television melodrama that I found uninspiring and completely forgettable.
Rating: - Amazing Love Scenarios: Any One Could be the "Real Thing"
This Brazlian film pulls off what no American film I have ever seen could do: it provides an amusing and entertaining vision of what the lives of the main characters *could* be like if they followed different love interests and possiblities. Any of the three situations could be the real thing since each is a valid lifestyle. What makes the film totally captivating and riveting is the realization of how absolutely unique and vastly different each love possibilty really is. Each scenario is played to perfection by Murilo Benicio and Carolina Ferraz. The film was shown at eight different film festivals ... Read More
Rating: - Three Tales in One: Possibilities of Destiny
'Amores Possíveis' (POSSIBLE LOVES) is fine little film from Brazil courtesy of writers Paulo Halm and Maya Werneck Da-Rin and polished young director Sandra Werneck. Filmed in Rio de Janeiro in Portuguese, the story of three possible outcomes of a potential love affair is cleverly conceived and is acted with aplomb by a fine cast of actors, and though billed as a comedy it shines with some dramatic truths that carry it far beyond the usual fluff so often before us in this country.
The 'story' is three stories in one: fifteen years ago Carlos (the inordinately handsome and talented Murilo ... Read More
Rating: - Lovely movie. Disappointing DVD.
This lovely Brazilian film is about the different roads a man's love life can take. It follows 3 separate possible lifelines. Each runs concurently in intercutting scenes, so you could be confused if you don't pay attention, especially as they all involve the same 2 main characters. The events branch off from one crucial moment in the young man's life - being stood-up by a date.
In one life he goes on to marry another woman and ends up in a loveless marriage. In another he remains a bachelor playboy still living with his mother after 15 years. In these first 2 scenarios, he meets again the ... Read More
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