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  • 2003
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2003
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 30 m
The Three Marias

Summary The interior of Brazil in the early 1970's: Firmino Santos Guerra, from a wealthy landed family, is abandoned by his fiancée, Filomena, who leaves him for his greatest enemy, Borges Capadocio. When Firmino extracts a bloody retribution decades later on Filomena's husband and sons, the widow turns to her three daughters as the instruments...

Directed By: Aluizio Abranches

Written By: Heitor Dhalia, Wilson Freire

  • 2003
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2003
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 30 m

The Three Marias

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary The interior of Brazil in the early 1970's: Firmino Santos Guerra, from a wealthy landed family, is abandoned by his fiancée, Filomena, who leaves him for his greatest enemy, Borges Capadocio. When Firmino extracts a bloody retribution decades later on Filomena's husband and sons, the widow turns to her three daughters as the instruments...

Directed By: Aluizio Abranches

Written By: Heitor Dhalia, Wilson Freire

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
45
22% Positive
2 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
22% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
45
22% Positive
2 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
This strikingly unusual movie is at once an old-fashioned melodrama, a boldly stylized spectacle, and a very grim fairy tale, acted and directed with originality and flair.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
70
Fresh and offbeat tale of vendetta.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
50
Abranches intends for a religious parable by way of Greek tragedy, but the film drowns in a morass of portentous signs and poetic symbols.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
He's (director Abranches) so focused on creating a strikingly mannerist visual style that he forgets to flesh out his plot and characters.
By Leslie Camhi FULL REVIEW
40
The film has all the pregnant pauses, exaggerated reaction shots and melodramatic scoring of an overripe telenovela, but, unlike a good soap opera, the sisters' separate story lines are clumsily balanced.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
30
A series of third-act complications provides much-needed narrative surprise, but until then, The Three Marias is a disappointingly flavorless genre exercise.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
25
The leaden pacing, somnambulant performances and incessant symbolism in nearly every shot will soon have you thinking that The Three Marias is three too many.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hare Filmes (ex Lama Filmes), Lama Filmes, Teodora Film
Release Date May 30, 2003
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Awards

Prêmio Guarani
• 6 Nominations
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 4 Nominations
Recife Cinema Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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