Um Copo de Cólera

 (A Glass of Rage - 1999)

This is a sex-centric art film film starring Brazilian TV star Júlia Lemmertz and her real life husband, Alexandres Borges. He plays a hermit, living in the country and raising rabbits. She is a big city journalist. She arrives one evening, and they waste little time with preliminaries, but spend the night having hot sex. The next morning, they have little to say at breakfast until he passionately attacks an ant hill, at which point the two start a verbal battle in stage prose that would seem much more natural from the other side of a proscenium arch. She finally leaves in a huff, but returns to his bedroom that night. The arguments seem to center around his bohemian anti-establishment life style vs. her conformity and belief in mainstream society.

The film received many award nominations for both artistic and technical aspects, so it is considered a good film. Frankly, the stagy dialogue didn't really interest me, but may have been much better in Portuguese. Júlia Lemmertz naked did impress me, and she spent the first 20 minutes of the film completely naked and having sex.

Our Grade:

If you are not familiar with our grading system, you need to read the explanation, because the grading is not linear. For example, by our definition, a C is solid and a C+ is a VERY good movie. There are very few Bs and As. Based on our descriptive system, this film is a:

C

This is a competent film for fans of world cinema and "hard core meets mainstream."

NUDITY REPORT

• Júlia Lemmertz and her real life husband, Alexandres Borges are naked throughout the film

THE CRITICS AND ACADEMIES

It was nominated for 6 Brazilian Academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinema Release, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Actress and Best Music.

There are no English-language reviews online.

THE BOX OFFICE

Brazilian data unknown. It was not released theatrically in the States.