Histórias de Amor Duram Apenas 90 Minutos

Interesting film, mostly fitting drama genre, but with funny (tragicomedy) moments and with many very well done sex scenes (I must highlight that both Maria Ribeiro and Luz Cipriota are very sexy here). Caio Blat's character, Zeca, who is also the narrator, is irresponsible, immature, depressing, untrustworthy, and inertially conservative. He supposedly could have been a good writer but he may only mourn about his life, as his unhappy father (played by Daniel Dantas, a character who wanted to be a writer himself but, by having not enough skill, wanted his son to do that) always remarks. Zeca had an intelligent, beautiful and loving wife/girlfriend, Júlia, who he probably felt (correctly) that he did not deserve. Then (perhaps as a strategy to feel free from regret), he starts to believe that she (a Ph. D candidate and teacher) has an Argentine student of hers and dancer, Carol, as a mistress (although the clues he follows are indeed quite inconclusive despite his belief). His jealousy is turned into sexually obsession about the latter. Eventually it becomes a love triangle, and the guy tries to solve his self-made puzzle in the way we could expect from a coward like him. After writing his own tragedy that he tried so hard to build, perhaps he would have something to make a novel about. Besides the smart edition and the erotic scenes, the most interesting element in the movie is the way Zeca's thoughts (from masturbation muse to filling in the blanks in the situations he does not see) are interwined with reality, as daydreaming. By the way, I would like to mention that I have seen that street musician several times in Rio de Janeiro downtown.