This can only be described as a beautiful and brilliant portrayal of a woman struggling with life and everything that revolves around being a single mother aswell as suffering from changes and losses and, despite all of that, emerging victorious. It's the unfortunate story of thousands upon thousands of young women in this country, told from the eyes of a strong and natural dreamer overcoming the roughness. I simply adore it.
I've been thinking a lot about what I want to write for this. For being a production collaborated between two countries (Germany and Brazil) the plot is essencially quite simple, but this doesn't get in the way of achieving a touching and all around accurate study of life and livelihood in this country. Relying in certain subtlety - going from plot to acting, to cinematography and to the soundtrack -, I don't have enough words to describe how unique this is. I can't help but think this powerful depiction is nothing less than a documented reality, because it feels and it looks so goddamn real. I interpret this being shown by the fact that our four main characters are named like their actors and actresses.
Dialogue, acting, scenery... filled with sensitivity, at the end everything works and lays out a topography so true and spontaneous to our reality, to the brazillian world of prostituition and family and difficulties and the dream of succeeding, I- I just dont want to bother dwelling on certain mistakes and/or poor executions troughout the movie - like the plethora of amateurs actors, for example -, even though it's not a perfect film, picking it apart and critizing everything isn't worth the trouble.
And, seriously, what can I say about Hermila Guedes? This woman is so captivating, so charismatic and so like a cousin that I have, it's just hypnotizing! How we don't see more of her in this industry is a crime.
All around graceful, emotionally impactful and honest to everything it represents, this movie is an inspiring and wonderful piece of art. Honestly, it's a shame it seems not that many people have seen it.