02/10 Brazilian Film: If I were you FREE

30 Sep, 2013

CINEMA 6.30pm Cineclub ‘If I were you’ (Se eu fosse você) @ Embassy of Brazil (14-16 Cockspur St, SW1Y 5BL)  020 7747 4500 FREE

FILM SUMMARY

A publicist Claudio married for many years to Helena, a children’s choir teacher, that in married couple’s routine fail to understand or respect each other’s feelings and viewpoints. Claudio perceives Helena as a shopper and ‘little choir teacher’ while Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before Claudio’s fiftieth birthday, there is an alignment of Mars, Earth and Jupiter. Claudio and Helena have a bad argument at home telling each other at the same time ‘If I were you’. Next morning when they wake up, they realize that they have switched bodies and have to face each other’s challenges in the agency, school and in meeting their friends and acquaintances.

2006 | 108 minutes | Comedy | Portuguese with English subtitles | Directed by Daniel Filho.