Main Cast: Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos
Release Year: 2000
Country: BR
Run Time: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
The legendary Brazilian songsmith Gilberto Gil supplies the score for this reality-based comedy, in which an independent-minded woman decides that if one live-in husband doesn't fulfill her needs, she can always add more. The film begins when Darlene (Regina Case) returns to her small, dusty hometown in northern Brazil to receive her mother's blessing for her for young son Dimas. When she arrives, she finds that her mother has died; her funeral occurs the day Darlene arrives. Despondent over her new predicament, she accepts an extemporaneous marriage proposal from her neighbor Osias (Lima Duarte) and moves in with him. It becomes clear to Darlene, however, that Osias wants little more than a live-in maid. Darlene becomes pregnant and bears a child -- who bears no resemblance to the light-skinned Osias. When Osias' cousin Zezinho (Stenio Garcia) comes to town and takes an immediate liking to Darlene, she doesn't turn him away -- before long, she's bearing his son as well. As the eager-to-please Zezinho takes over her housekeeping duties, Darlene decides that the one thing she's lacking in her life is true passion, and fills that void with a sugar cane worker named Ciro (Luis Vasconcelos), who moves in as well. Eu Tu Eles was purportedly inspired by a Brazilian news story about a woman in a similar alternative-living situation; the film screened at the 2000 Cannes, Tokyo, and Toronto Film Festivals before making its stateside premiere. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
Cast
Regina Case - Darlene
Lima Duarte - Osias
Stenio Garcia - Zezinho
Luis Carlos Vasconcelos - Ciro
Credit
Antonio Vanzolini - Art Director, Kátia Lund - First Assistant Director, Andrucha Waddington - Director, Gilberto Gil - Composer (Music Score), Flavio R. Tambellini - Producer, Andrucha Waddington - Producer, Leonardo Monteiro de Barros - Producer, Pedro Buarque de Hollanda - Producer, Mark Van der Willigen - Sound/Sound Designer, Elena Soarez - Screenwriter
