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The personal and romantic peccadilloes of a Brazilian household come to light in this melodrama. Alice (Carla Ribas) works in a beauty salon and tries to keep her house in order with the help of her m... read more read more...other (Berta Zemel), though with four men in the house it's no small challenge. Alice's husband, Lindomar (Zecarlos Machado), is a surly cab driver who is also the father of her three sons, Lucas (Vinicius Zinn), Edinho (Ricardo Vilaca), and Junior (Felipe Massuia). Lucas has inherited his father's self-obsessed and womanizing ways, while Edinho leads a secret life he hides from his family, and Junior is just beginning to act on his budding interest in the opposite sex. Alice's relationship with Lindomar has been rocky for years, and when she meets Nilson (Luciano Quirino), the husband of Carmen (Renata Zhaneta), one of her regular customers, she senses a mutual attraction, and before long the two are having an affair. Alice experiences a mingled excitement and guilt about her relationship with Nilson, and her agony is compounded when she discovers that Lindomar is also having an affair -- with a teenage girl Alice has been mentoring. A Casa de Alice (aka Alice's House) was the first feature film for director Chico Teixeira. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Chico Teixeira

Release Date: January 25, 2008

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DVD Release Date: June 23, 2009

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  • gator681
    February 10, 2008
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic]In "Alice's House," Alice(Carla Ribas), the mother of three sons, lives in a cramped apartment that also includes her mother(Berta Zemel). Her husband, Lindomar(Zecarlos Machado) is a cab driver who is carrying on with a neighborhood teenager, Thais(Mariana ... read moreLeighton). Their oldest son, Lucas(Vinicius Zinn) who is 21, is in the army, supplementing his income by having sex with other men and gives romantic tips to his younger brother, Junior(Felipe Massuia). During the day, Alice works at a beauty salon whose best customer is Carmen(Renata Zhaneta), wife to Nilson(Luciano Quirino) who owns a car dealership. Nilson turns out to be an old flame of Alice's.[/font]
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    [font=Century Gothic]"Alice's House" starts slowly but builds to a powerfully ironic finale. And it has a great way of capturing everyday life in the smallest of gestures, especially in the closeups of the hands of standees on a bus, signifying how much everybody is holding on for dear life in modern society. At the same time, everybody in Alice's family is looking upwards, even if they are not exerting much effort in the process.(Thus serving as a temporary ceasefire in the class war.) Even though they live a decent enough life, the situation of their living quarters has slowly eroded the solidarity of the family bonds over the years. [/font]

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Susan Walker
July 11, 2008
Susan Walker, Toronto Star

Nothing much happens in Alice's House, and a turning point in the plot is terribly contrived, but as sociology and maybe even a pilot for a soap serial, the movie is worth a look. Full Review

Desson Thomson
April 10, 2008
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

Even though it sounds awfully depressing, there's something moving about watching people go at their lives with everything they have -- or don't have. Full Review

Ty Burr
March 14, 2008
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Like a Brazilian telenovela unfolding in real time, the film fans its cards out slowly until we can see for ourselves the deck is stacked. Full Review

David Wiegand
January 25, 2008
David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle

Teixeira elicits extraordinary performances from his entire cast. Full Review

V.A. Musetto
January 25, 2008
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

Writer-director Chico Teixeira, who started out making documentaries, watches from afar as his middle-class characters go about their day-in, day-out activities, most of which revolve around sex. Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
January 25, 2008
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

Some stories, Teixeira is wise enough to realize, are best left unadorned. Full Review

Carina Chocano
January 25, 2008
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

What lingers after watching Alice's House are not the moments of conflict but the inexorable rhythms of daily life. Full Review

Jeannette Catsoulis
January 25, 2008
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

Chico Teixeira's languid, libidinous Alice's House is the best argument against marriage and motherhood to appear in many a year.

Deborah Young
January 24, 2008
Deborah Young, Variety

Documaker Chico Teixeira gives a light, natural feel to his small but fetching first feature, set in a working class household in Sao Paulo that gets turned upside down by everyday dramas of sexual an... Full Review

Stephen Farber
January 24, 2008
Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

Despite all the crises brewing in this family, we never feel there's anything at stake.

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