The Invisible Woman (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

Brazil

Feature Film

Original title: A Mulher Invisível

Director: Cláudio Torres

Writers: Cláudio Torres, Adriana Falcão, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Cláudio Paiva

Cinematographer: Ralph Strelow

Composers: Luca Raele, Maurício Tagliari

Cast: Selton Mello, Maria Manoella, Vladimir Brichta, Luana Piovani, Fernanda Torres

When his wife leaves him for a German millionaire, Pedro, a thirty-something Rio traffic operator, re-enters the dating pool, but after just a few weeks is ready to give up, until he meets the perfect woman, who (unfortunately for him) turns out to be a figment of his imagination – cue a great deal of air-snogging in the cinema, on the dance floor, and elsewhere – whilst his next door neighbour, who actually does exist and really likes him, may as well be invisible as, in the six years that she has lived next door to him, has never managed to turn his head, in Torres’s mildly entertaining but decidedly fluffy and perhaps a tad overlong romantic comedy. Iain.Stott