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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary After two years of living in São Paulo, Hermila returns to her village in northeastern Brazil with her newborn son, anxiously awaiting the arrival of her husband. Time passes slowly and the wait becomes an even heavier burden as she begins to realize that she`s been abandoned. Her distress increases as she renews a relationship with an o...

Directed By: Karim Aïnouz

Written By: Felipe Bragança, Simone Lima, Mauricio Zacharias, Karim Aïnouz

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m

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Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary After two years of living in São Paulo, Hermila returns to her village in northeastern Brazil with her newborn son, anxiously awaiting the arrival of her husband. Time passes slowly and the wait becomes an even heavier burden as she begins to realize that she`s been abandoned. Her distress increases as she renews a relationship with an o...

Directed By: Karim Aïnouz

Written By: Felipe Bragança, Simone Lima, Mauricio Zacharias, Karim Aïnouz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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88
The theme song, a wonderful Portuguese version of Bread's soft-rock classic "Everything I Own," is by Dinah, a long-forgotten Brazilian singing sensation of the 1970s who deserves to be better remembered.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
Hermila Guedes is hot as the damsel in distress. She carries the movie on her slender shoulders, providing erotic charm and believable acting.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
67
A tough-minded story about how to define self-worth.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
60
Not half as exotic or as compelling as Mr. Aïnouz’s 2002 film, “Madame Satã,” which examined the fantastic life of a transvestite prostitute and underground entertainer in 1930s and ’40s Rio de Janeiro. But it shares the earlier film’s deep sympathy with sexual free spirits in a rigid macho society.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Once you know the title, you pretty much get the gist. Just as Hermila ought to escape her hometown, Guedes deserves to flee to a richer film.
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Film has major assets in Walter Carvalho's stunning landscapes and livewire young lead Hermila Guedes, but overall, it's too uninvolving.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Celluloid Dreams, Fado Filmes, Shotgun Pictures, VideoFilmes
Release Date Aug 15, 2007
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.oceudesuely.com.br/
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Awards

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 1 Win & 12 Nominations
Prêmio Guarani
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations

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