One of the best, but possibly the very best one, adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues to the cinema. The story is great, Andrucha Waddington has a perfect direction, producing a visually beautiful film, with good cinematography, art direction, edition, and off course an excellent performance of all actors. However, what is impossible not to hightlight is particularly the absolutely brilliant performance of Fernanda Torres as the twin sisters. Not only she was able to show, as always, how versatile she is as an actress, but here she could portray two physically indentical sisters (whith the very same hairstyle, makeup, and so on), but with expressions and minor behaviors which were enough for the spectator nearly always identify which character was there, Marilena or Iara! Whenever it is not possible to distinguish, it is probably on purpose. I always knew Fernanda Torres is one of the best actresses, but this film is perhaps the very one where she makes no doubt about it to be possible.