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I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
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Wikipedia article
'I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips' is a 2011 Brazilian romance drama film directed by Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca. Based on a novel of the same name by Maral Aquino, it stars Camila Pitanga, Gustavo Machado, and Zecarlos Machado, in a love triangle.
Pitanga plays the role of Lavnia, a former prostitute and drug addict who is taken from the Rio de Janeiro streets by Ernani (husband), a pastor. After a period of time, the couple is shown to be living in Santarm, Par, where Lavnia fall in love with Cauby (lover), a photographer who sees in her a muse. It took over four months to shoot it in Santarm and Rio de Janeiro.
Cast
*Camila Pitanga as Lavnia
*Gustavo Machado as Cauby
*Zecarlos Machado as Ernani
*Gero Camilo as Viktor Laurence
*Antonio Pitanga as Isaas
*Adriano Barroso as Polozzi
*Magnlio de Oliveira as Chico Chagas
*Simone Sou as Xam
Reception
It was first screened at the 2011 Festival do Rio on October 11, 2011, and was the most watched film over Pedro Almodvar's 'The Skin I Live In'. In Rio, Camila Pitanga won the Best Actress Award, and it was awarded the Best Film at the 37th Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva. Boyd van Hoeij from 'Variety' said it is "more noteworthy for its atmosphere ... than the flashback-laden narrative, which, between vigorous sexual workouts, manages to be overly symbolical and soapy." 'Screendaily.com's Mark Adams declared "The film while beautifully shot and appropriately steamy then takes a dive into melodrama territory". Adams lauded how Brant and Ciasca "make the most of their striking lead actress and bring just the right amount of steamy sexual tension to what is in essence an old-fashioned melodrama."
References
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