A lush tropical melodrama drenched in saturated colors, tracing the parallel, stifling lives of two sisters separated by a father's lie and the suffocating shadows of a patriarchal 1950s Rio de Janeiro.
Invisible Life
A Vida Invisível
"A tropical melodrama"
Director:
Karim Aïnouz
Cast:
Carol Duarte, Julia Stockler, Fernanda Montenegro, Gregório Duvivier, Bárbara Santos
Drama
Invisible Life - Easter Eggs & Hidden Details
Easter Eggs
The use of mirrors and 'frames within frames'
Cinematographer Hélène Louvart and Aïnouz frequently shoot the sisters through doorways, windows, or reflected in mirrors to visually reinforce their sense of entrapment and the 'fragmented' nature of their lives.
Fernanda Montenegro's casting
The appearance of Montenegro in the coda serves as a meta-textual bridge to the history of Brazilian cinema, grounding the fictional 'invisible' life in the very real cultural memory of Brazil.