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  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • FiGa Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • FiGa Films
  • 1 h 32 m

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 t...

Directed By: Chico Teixeira

Written By: Sabina Anzuategui, Marcelo Gomes, Júlio Pessoa, Chico Teixeira

  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • FiGa Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • FiGa Films
  • 1 h 32 m

Alice's House

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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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 t...

Directed By: Chico Teixeira

Written By: Sabina Anzuategui, Marcelo Gomes, Júlio Pessoa, Chico Teixeira

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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80
Chico Teixeira’s languid, libidinous Alice’s House is the best argument against marriage and motherhood to appear in many a year.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
75
Teixeira elicits extraordinary performances from his entire cast.
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75
The power of this plot comes from the drudgery of daily existence, not shocking revelations or dramatic encounters. Some stories, Teixeira is wise enough to realize, are best left unadorned.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
75
The gritty location shooting, the absence of a soundtrack and the casting of non-professionals in key roles help capture an all-important sense of place with almost documentary precision.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
What Teixeira has set out to do, and accomplished brilliantly, is to find drama and pathos in the mundane details, thoughtless betrayals and casual cruelties. What lingers after watching Alice's House are not the moments of conflict but the inexorable rhythms of daily life.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
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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If telenovelas were convincingly real, they would no doubt look like the tumultuous world of domestic strife and libido deftly limned in Alice's House. Documaker Chico Teixeira gives a light, natural feel to his small but fetching first feature.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Superfilmes
Release Date Jan 25, 2008
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline In every house you never know what secrets lie behind the front door
Website http://www.acasadealice.com.br/
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Awards

Guadalajara International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
ACIE Awards, Brazil
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Prêmio Qualidade, Brazil
• 3 Nominations

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