I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips (2011)

Original title

Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios

Directed by

Beto Brant

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

16

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A photographer falls in love with a former prostitute living with her pastor husband in a small Amazonian town. Their affair threatens to unravel the fragile life she has built.

tragicmelancholicslow-burnromanticbleakvisually lushintimatetense

What happens

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips (Portuguese: Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios) is a 2011 Brazilian romance drama film directed by Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca. Based on a novel of the same name by Marçal Aquino, it stars Camila Pitanga, Gustavo Machado, and Zecarlos Machado, in a love triangle. Pitanga plays the role of Lavínia, a former prostitute and drug addict who is taken from the Rio de Janeiro streets by Ernani (husband), a pastor. After a period of time, the couple is shown to be living in Santarém, Pará, where Lavínia fall in love with Cauby (lover), a photographer who sees in her a muse. It took over four months to shoot it in Santarém and Rio de Janeiro. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Found Memories (2011)
• The Sky We Were Born Under (2011)
• The Silver Cliff (2011)
• Essa Maldita Vontade de Ser Pássaro (2011)
• Swirl (2011)
• Rânia (2011)
• Estamos Juntos (2011)
• We 3 (2011)