A towering central performance from Sônia Braga and the all too rare chance to see a film centred around a 60-something woman are the main reasons to watch this film which is strong on character study, but ultimately - and at 140 or so minutes - is all too weak on narrative.
For my full review check out The Geek Show
Brazilian model Ellen Roche who played Lara Croft in 2001 to promote the Tomb Raider series in her native country
11 O'Clock Show presenter Daisy Donovan (daughter of 60s snapper Terence) was back on our TV screens tonight after a lengthy time away, with a new show The Greatest Shows On Earth, a documentary series in the Louis Theroux vein, which takes a look at bizarre television across the world. And she's lost none of her sharp humour in the most ridiculous situations.
Tonight's debut episode saw her in Brazil where some of the most extreme and horribly degrading TV is broadcast. Largely involving young girls in states of undress being treated as nothing more than pieces of meat for the nation's entertainment.
Now, I'm no prude and indeed as my friend and fellow blogger Cait recently described me in her spotlight on blogs post, I 'appreciate the female form' on this blog (click here) with posts like 'bum day'...but my word, what Brazil TV with shows like Miss Bum Bum, where judges examine and rate starlets bottoms like they're vets examining a horse, complete with upskirt shots, and the gruesome 'comedy' of Panico na TV which abuses, defiles and humiliates similar bikini clad starlets making them fight for pieces of cheese is just plain sick. Meanwhile away from the sexism there's a Sunday morning family entertainment show with dancing girls, a singing priest and a reformed drug dealer for a host, and a Crimewatch style show that thinks nothing of showing gruesome shots of murdered corpses...at lunchtime! Here's a link, apologies that it is from The Scum newspaper Daisy-Donovan-is-back-with-The-Greatest-Shows-On-Earth
Thanks Daisy, I'm not sure I'll ever complain about the UK TV output with the same vitriol ever again. And it's good to see you back on TV.
