Breezy Brazilian romantic comedy, a piece of fluff, a mere wisp, beginning with travelogue shots of Rio (a rainbow over the bay, soccer on the beach, etc.) and ending with the stock scene of a lover's mad dash to the airport. In between, there's one amusing bit of an adult-education English teacher (Amy Irving, wife of director Bruno Barreto) schooling a local soccer star in English trash-talk in preparation for his move to Manchester: "Eat my shorts!" The film is dedicated to Antonio Carlos Jobim and, a little more incongruously and insultingly, François Truffaut: not the Truffaut, surely, of The Wild Child, Two English Girls, The Story of Adele H., The Green Room. But then again (not that there's any comparison), this is not the Bruno Barreto of A Show of Force and Four Days in September, either. Antonio Fagundes, Alexandre Borges, Debora Bloch, Stephen Tobolowsky. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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