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  • 2019
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 2 h 19 m
  • 2019
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 2 h 19 m

Summary Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live ...

Directed By: Karim Aïnouz

Written By: Murilo Hauser, Inés Bortagaray, Martha Batalha, Karim Aïnouz

  • 2019
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 2 h 19 m
  • 2019
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 2 h 19 m

Invisible Life

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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81
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 39 User Ratings
8.0
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Summary Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live ...

Directed By: Karim Aïnouz

Written By: Murilo Hauser, Inés Bortagaray, Martha Batalha, Karim Aïnouz

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 18 Critic Reviews
81
94% Positive
17 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 18 Critic Reviews
81
94% Positive
17 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Dec 20, 2019
Aïnouz’s Invisible Life reflects the kind of love story we rarely see on-screen, and it’s a gem worth discovering for yourself.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
90
Dec 19, 2019
It’s a drama of resilient women, thoughtless men and crushingly unrealized dreams, told with supple grace, deep feeling and an empathy that extends in every direction.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 39 User Ratings
8.0
82% Positive
32 Ratings
8% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 39 User Ratings
8.0
82% Positive
32 Ratings
8% Mixed
3 Ratings
10% Negative
4 Ratings

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10
katezoe
Jun 3, 2020
One of the best films of 2020. A beautiful story about sisterhood and being a woman in a male dominated world. The cinematography is gorgeous.
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10
juangalmeidx
Mar 18, 2020
ao terminar o filme, não pude encontrar nenhuma palavra boa o suficiente para descrevê-lo e sinto que ainda sou incapaz reduzi-lo a meras palavras... então, só tenho a dizer o seguinte: filme do milênio!!!!!
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80
Oct 15, 2021
While Duarte and Stockler’s deeply-felt turns anchor the film from drifting into simplistic sentimentality, Hélène Louvart’s sumptuous cinematography elevates the script’s high-flung emotion with spaces that are often dreamlike; light is tangible like a haze, colours deep and tactile, and characters are glimpsed and doubled through screens, glass and mirrors, and Benedikt Schiefer’s classical score tenderly fills out and gives detail to the broader emotional brushstrokes.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
80
May 29, 2019
Anyone already familiar with Aïnouz’s work will know to expect a florid sensory experience, but even by the Brazilian’s standards, this heartbroken tale of two sisters separated for decades by familial shame and deceit is a waking dream, saturated in sound, music and color to match its depth of feeling.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
78
Jan 8, 2020
The film is so alive, so joyous and raucous at times, that the empathy you feel for these characters is all the more poignant and the catharsis is well earned. This is a film you fall into, like an embrace you wish two sisters would hold, but one that the world denies them.
By Josh Kupecki FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 31, 2019
Invisible Life is not an entirely fun watch, and its 139-minute running time is an investment and sometimes feels like it. But it offers something more than the usual experience.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 18, 2019
Only rarely does Karim Aïnouz allow for loopholes to refreshingly emerge from the film’s stylistic deadlock.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
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10
ftomaz
Dec 21, 2019
When the love from the Tropicos is everthing than already search for, this story come out from the womb of art.
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Feb 15, 2024
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company Sony Pictures Releasing, RT Features, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, Canal Brasil, Agência Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE), Banco Regional de Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul, Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual (FSA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Release Date Dec 20, 2019
Duration 2 h 19 m
Rating R
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Tagline A Tropical Melodrama by Karim Ainouz
Website https://die-schwestern-gusmao.piffl-medien.de/
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Awards

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 5 Wins & 16 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 4 Wins & 16 Nominations
Prêmio Guarani
• 6 Wins & 13 Nominations

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