Angela

2023 [PORTUGUESE]

Action / Biography / Crime / Drama

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IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 775 775

jealousy murder beach house crime from the 70s

Plot summary

In this biopic about the life and death of Ângela Diniz, Angela meets Raul and believes she has found someone who loves her free spirit as much as she does. The overwhelming attraction makes the couple drop everything and live the dream of rebuilding their lives on the beach. But the relationship declines into abuse and violence, giving rise to one of the most remembered murders in Brazil.

Director

Hugo Prata Photo
Hugo Prata

Top cast

Isis Valverde Photo
Isis Valverde as Ângela Diniz
Du Dibo Photo
Du Dibo as Secretária Raul
André Kirmayr Photo
André Kirmayr as Amante Tóia
Felipe Barros Photo
Felipe Barros as Cinegrafista
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952.63 MB
1280*532
Portuguese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
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1.91 GB
1920*798
Portuguese 5.1
NR
Subtitles pt   us   es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kosmasp 6 / 10

Own making

No pun intended - when I saw the poster (main actress), my first thought was: this is Gal Gadot ... is it not? (that does not count as a pun, right?) In case you are or were as confused as myself: it is not her, this is someone completely different - equally beautiful. Way better actress though - and I don't think that is a subjective opinion.This is based on a real person - I did not know that, but after watching the movie I saw some of the references that imdb posted on the page - the movie feels a bit episodic. But it is still well told - and quite harrowing to say the least! That just in case you are thinking about it - can't be too sensitive about certain things ... the end credits also give some extra information ... about real life ...
Reviewed by dragoshilbert 3 / 10

The movie is failing the conclusion

In my opinion, the character depicted in the movie deserve to be punished, maybe not by death but honestly the movie make me to believe his reasons to pull the trigger and because of that, the movie fails to support the real woman and the conclusion that the Angela didn't deserve to die.To kill someone because of honor is at least stupid and clearly a harsh punishment is required. But the movie fails this part, the moral part, the failing of the man who is not capable to control himself and cannot escape from her, he is also a victim, this is clear but the expected behavior, the moral story is not there.Too much time spent in sex scenes that not only are low quality but brings too little, too much on her part of the story and honestly was impossible to have empathy for her and I think this is the biggest fail of the movie.Maybe it should have been a movie about the aftermath and the changes in the society, that could have been a better story.In conclusion: the movie fails to make the audience have empathy for her, sex scenes are useless and bad, creates more reasons to agree with his actions than with her fate. I am not in a position to judge if the real Angela deserved to die, I am sure she didn't, but the movie fails to make her a character that audience love.
Reviewed by Rodrigo_Amaro 5 / 10

Disappointing effort

Most disappointed with this one, a long-awaited project that is only seeing the light of day now since it's addressing a topic that's everywhere in the media and the case of Angela Diniz murder on the hands of her boyfriend Doca Street, in 1976, was huge on the issue of feminicide (back when such term didn't exist), and later on got the famous term "Quem Ama Não Mata" ("Who Loves does not Kill") coined.The way for this to work would be a major exicision of the couple's relationship (played by Isis Valverde and Gabriel Braga Nunes), just going for paradise times, troubled times but without the excesssive sex scenes, breaking up and returns, go to the actual case and head for a long aftermath which is the trial and the debate generated on society. We'd have a better movie and a spetacular trial movie to shock audiences.But nope. Instead, it focus on rich people's sadness (and I'm trying to not be insenstive). But it's like everybody's sad, all the characters.Sure, one can learn a lot about relationship dynamics between men and women and how they cope at difficult times, and loving times, it's a so-and-so text book on the matter, but the majority of time there's a small series of glamoured life of the 1970's Brazil with the majority of it all is sadness and bitterness, nothing is complete.The Diniz case set a huge blase on people, it's discussed ever since 1976 and today's audiences needed a more satisfying movie for audiences to learn about it, see how society changed (little, must say) from them and the women's movement end up becoming a powerful force afterwards.Too bad the film became a series of excessive drama, jumpy because it doesn't explain much about an incident from her past - the dialogues were too criptic and I had to research about that incident; it's a repetitive film that just drags on with average performances - except for the maid, she was pretty good.Suggestion: if available, the Linha Direta episode or just listen to Youtube coments on the topic or podcasts elsewhere. 5/10.
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