Amélia

Very funny comedy of manners full of dark humor and magic realism about fictional moments world famous French actress Sarah Bernhard with the sisters of her Brazilian maid Amélia. Dialogues and situations are hilarious, exploring the problems of communication and contrast of cultures. There are many colorful characters, such as slf-centered and lunatic Sarah and the two Amélia's sisters and an additional household member (there are references to Lady Macbeth and to witches in Sarah Bernhard's lines, which may apply to herself and to the three unsophisticated women), the hyperactive assistant of Sarah who speaks in several languages but Portuguese (Betty Gofman had my second favoutite performance together with Béatrice Angenin and second only to Myrian Muniz, brilliant as the elder and rougher of the "witch" sisters), the Portuguese actor who tries to have some profit in that situation, and the businessman who frigthens indebted actress. A great ending for the film in which the French superstar always loked to Brazil with colonial eyes.