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| Romeo And Juliet Get Married (Portugese) The tomboyish, outgoing Juliet is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeo that she sees rooting for Palmeiras' chief rivals, Corinthians. After meeting the same man again, Juliet and Romeo quickly fall in love. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeo is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthian. Finally, Romeo is forced to admit his true allegiance to Juliet's father on a turbulent plane flight following Palmeiras disastrous defeat in an international match in Tokyo. Romeo and Juliet are shunned by both members of their family, including Romeo's energetic grandmother. Eventually the two families face off in a heated confrontation outside Romeo's apartment, an argument that is escalated particularly after it is revealed that Juliet is pregnant. Eventually, the two feuding families are able to rally around their love for both Romeo and Juliet, even if they are unable to look past their different sport affiliations. Classification: U Genre: Comedy / Romance / Sports General Release Date: 22 Oct 2009 Running Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes, Distributor: Golden Screen Cinemas Cast: Luana Piovani, Luis Gustavo, Marco Ricca, Martha Mellinger Director: Bruno Barreto
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by Sivarasa Sothivadivel
Star Rating: Overall:      Cast:      Plot:      Effects:      Cinematography :     
Watch this if you liked: “Romeo + Juliet”, “West Side Story”, “Goal”
Starting off like "Bend It Like Beckham", this 2005 Brazilian rom-com is a light-hearted, loose re-telling of the Shakepeare tale where Luana Piovani and Marco Ricca are team-crossed lovers whose households are not Capulet and Montague, but Palmeiras and Corinthians, two of the best-supported football clubs in the country.
Alfredo Baragatti (Luis Gustavo) is a passionate football fanatic in the board of directors for Palmeiras. However his leggy, footballing daughter Juliet (Luana Piovani) falls in love with nervous eye doctor Romeo (Marco Ricca), a die-hard supporter of rivals Corinthians who chairs of the fanclub. From a field injury, a chance encounter at the clinic now blossoms into a romance but an all-out family war beckons when the couple find their love tested by fierce objections of their union. That is, after they even get to admitting their allegiances to each other!
The comedy in this film is very conventional but the story is dribbled forward with delightfully great ease as the acting from both the main and supporting cast are solid and very watchable. Luis Gustavo, playing the excitable board member and forbidding father, can be singled out as the highlight performance of the movie. His energetic and completely sincere portrayal is so convincing that you start believing how it's morally wrong for two people from different teams to be mere friends, never mind lovers!
At any rate, "Romeo And Juliet Get Married" is an excellent opening opportunity to learn about traditional team rivalry between football clubs that we don't get to see every day. Thanks to its 90-minute running time (match-long, coincidentally), we can expect a sort of popcorn movie to be enjoyed by couples who love sports.
Cinema Online, 16 October 2009 |
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