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  • Summary: Alice is in her forties and works as a manicurist in a beauty salon. She lives in a neighborhood in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, sharing an apartment with her mother, Dona Jacira, her husband, Lindomar, a taxi-driver, and their three sons, Lucas, Edinho, and Junior. After 20 years of marriage, neither Lindomar nor Alice expects much in the way of reconciliation. The taxi-driver saves his sexual impulses for the affairs that he maintains, with a preference for teenage girls. Alice pretends not to acknowledge her husband's infidelities. Enter Nilson, Alice’s old boyfriend from adolescence. Alice sees in him the possibility to realize her romantic dreams, changing the course of her love life and finances. Once more she creates illusions that will lead her to nothing. (Figa Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    80
    Chico Teixeira's languid, libidinous Alice's House is the best argument against marriage and motherhood to appear in many a year.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    75
    Unlike Pedro Almódovar's "What Have I Done To Deserve This?," which focused on a similarly harried wife and mother who reached her breaking point, Alice's House does not leaven its heroine's plight with dark humor. Nor does it offer any easy escape route.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    50
    Too undernourished dramatically to make much of a splash. While it should earn some respectful reviews, audiences won't come away satisfied.

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