Una history of “sisterhood” in Brazil of the 1950s, who has conquered public and criticism. It is aired tonight on the first TV on Rai 5 At 9.15 pm, The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão. At the center of the film, Two sisters divided by the family and by a patriarchal society which, over the decades, will never lose the hope of finding oneself.
The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmãothe plot of the film on the first TV on Rai 5
Eurídice (Carol Duarte) and Guida Gusmão (Julia Stockler) are two young sisters very linked to each other that They live in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1950s. Girls grow in a patriarchal family context, marked by a retrograde mentality. One evening, when Guide hidden from the house to meet a young sailor Greco, Giōrgos, of whom he fell in love, his sister covers his absence with his father. But guide He does not return: he embarked on Europe with his belovedas revealed in a letter to the family.
Left alone, Euríice accepts her bourgeois fate, which also provides for the combined marriage with antenor (Gregório Duvivier), rich son of a city trader. During the honeymoon of Euríicethe sister Guide, seduced and abandoned by the sailor returns home pregnant. The father walks around her home with contempt And it forbids the wife to tell the incident to her sister.
Guide thus finds refuge at the house of a poor woman named Filomena. After childbirth, initially yields to child in adoption to the hospital, but, convinced by Filomena, The following day he takes him back. He decides to deal with it and, to do it, Find work at a foundry. Soon also Eurídice becomes the mother of a child. In the meantime he hires an investigator to track down his sister. To a Christmas Eve, The two are almost about to meet in a restaurantwhere the two unsuspecting cousins cross, but Guida abandons the place as soon as he sees his father in the distance.
Carol Duarte and Julia Stockler in a scene of “The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão”. (Officine Ubu)
The review of the film based on Martha Batalha’s book
Directed by the Brazilian Karim Aïnouz, The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão And the cinematographic adaptation of the 2016 novel by Martha Batalhatranslated into Italy by Feltrinelli. Winner in Cannes in 2019 of the section A Certain RegardAnd A compelling family mélo and, at the same time, A hard and merciless portrait of the Brazilian patriarchal society and oppressive of the time. Movie with vivid and dense colors, it is A real labyrinth of passions and, thanks to the epistolary structure, which juxtaposes the two protagonists, it results engaging, without ever a moment of tired despite the Almost two and a half hours of duration.
With Douglas Sirk’s cinema and Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the head (and in the heart), Karim Aïnouz He pays homage to the melodrama and uses its style to question the patriarchal family dynamics, entrusting to mutual support between women the only hope of freedom and self -determination. A film, therefore, that Merge cinephilia, social commitment and a reflection on contemporary society filtered through the historical fresco.
The cast of The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão
The success of the film is mainly thanks to the Pair of formidable protagonists: Julia Stockler and Carol Duarte. The first, 36 years old, won thanks to the film many important prizes such as the great prêmio do Cinema Braziliro while the Duarte in 2022 was one of the protagonists of The chimera by Alice Rohrwacher.
In the cast, in a small but moving role, too Fernanda Montenegro, one of the icons of Brazilian cinema and television. Mother of the actress Fernanda Torres, it was the First Latin American actress to have been nominated for the Oscar winner Thanks to the movie Central Do Brasil. In the film, Fernanda plays the role of Euríice as an elderly person.
To complete the cast also a large group of Brazilian actors Composed of Gregorio Duvivier (Antenor Campelo), Barbara Santos (Filomena), Flavia Gusmão (Ana) and Maria Manella (Zélia).
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