Alexandre Borges Movies
- 2002
Two men plotting a murder discover their partner in crime wants more out of the deal than they expected. Ivan (Alexandre Borges) and Gilberto (Marco Ricca) were partners with their friend Estevao (Malu Mader) in a construction company that the three founded shortly after graduating from engineering school. While the business had been successful for some time, some irregularities in the books became evident, and Estevao, who owns controlling interest in the company, decides that they should eliminate their partnership and go their separate ways. Ivan and Gilberto aren't at all interested in shutting down the business, and they decide to hire a hit man to take their former friend out of the picture so they can gain full control of the company. Anisio (Paulo Miklos), the hit man, is more than willing to do the job, but afterward, he isn't so interested in going away. A poor man in a town where class means a great deal, Anisio sees Ivan and Gilberto as possible stepping stones to a better social station and a more comfortable life, and the two businessmen begin to wonder if they've made a mistake. The web becomes all the more tangled when Anisio begins dating Estevao's daughter. The Trespasser won the Latin American Cinema Award after its screening at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marco Ricca, Alexandre Borges, (more)
- 2000
- R
Recalling late period films from Francois Truffaut and American 1930s screwball comedies, Bruno Barreto directs this elegant romantic comedy set in Brazil. Mary Ann Simpson (Amy Irving) is a middle-aged American widow teaching English in Rio de Janeiro. Since her pilot husband died two years previously, Mary Ann has more or less dispensed with any ideas of a second chance at love. When one of her nubile young students mentions that she found her perfect match, Mary Ann insists that one can only meet Mr. Right in the flesh. Later, she shares an elevator with suave attorney Pedro Paulo (Antonio Fagundes), who is in the throes of a painful transition after his wife Tania (Debora Bloch) dumped him for a tai chi instructor. Pedro is struck by Mary Ann immediately, and he decides to sign up for one of her classes even though he is thoroughly fluent in English. Meanwhile, soccer ace Acacio (Alexandre Borges) is struggling through Mary Ann's language classes in order to play for a U.K. team. The good-looking athlete flirts with his teacher for a while, complicating things for Pedro Paulo, before becoming infatuated with Pedro's sexy law clerk. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Amy Irving, Antonio Fagundes, (more)
- 1999
Based on a well-known Brazilian novel, Amor & Cia (aka Love Inc.) is a satiric period piece that makes light of the consequences of a romantic triangle. Alves (Marco Nanini) thinks he has a happy marriage until one day he discovers his wife Ludovina (Patricia Pillar) is having an affair with Machado, his business partner (Alexandre Borges). Alves immediately packs Ludovina off to her parents' home, and he debates both the etiquette and the means of challenging Machado to a duel. Amor & Cia was shown at the 1999 Puerto Rico Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marco Nanini, Patricia Pillar, (more)
- 1998
Um Copo de Colera, which is adapted from a novel by Raduan Nassar, is an experimental film about an odd couple. She is an attractive journalist of twenty-five and he is a recluse in his late thirties who lives in a farm house outside Sao Paulo, where he has created a world of his own. When he comes home, she is waiting for him. They go to the bedroom. There is hardly a word spoken between the two. The next morning, he remembers that ants have chewed a hole in the hedge. He is very angry and the atmosphere changes. The harmony explodes into insults and recriminations. A few hours later, the same ritual is repeated -- desire, fulfillment, humiliation. Um Copo de Colera which was screened as part of the Panorama: art & essai section of the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999, is a psychological study of the male warrior in the battle of the sexes, and an impressive self-examination and analysis of machismo. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alexandre Borges, Julia Lemmertz, (more)
This beautifully photographed black and white Brazilian mystery chronicles the union between Paco, an aspiring actor living in Sao Paulo, and Brazil-born Alex, who works as a waitress in Lisbon, Portugal. Much of the tale is set in 1990 when Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello threw his country into an economic tailspin by suddenly confiscating the savings accounts of the entire population. At this time, Paco is living with his elderly mother in a poor Sao Paulo neighborhood. Tired of living in squalor, the mother dreams of returning to her native Spain. When she learns that her savings have been seized, the shocked old woman drops dead. Now without his mother, Paco feels little desire to stay in Brazil and so meets with the sleazy Igor, an antique dealer, and agrees to smuggle a violin stuffed with raw diamonds to Lisbon. Paco is to take the fiddle to a certain hotel where he will be paid by the contact. Unfortunately, he arrives, but the contact doesn't. This incident leads him down a twisted road filled with murder, danger and intrigue that eventually ends in the arms of Alex. In many films, this would be the end of the story, but not for Alex and Paco, for they cannot relax and enjoy their relationship unless they can somehow escape the murderous thugs Igor sent to kill them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fernanda Torres, Fernando Alves Pinto, (more)
- 1994
Using comedy and melodrama this film reflects upon the filmmaking process as it follows a young woman's attempts to create an avant garde film. Alice has just lost her father, and just divorced her husband David. She wants to make a film on artist Marcel Duchamp and trace his imaginary trip to Brazil. But first she must find financial backing and a leading man. She finds the latter in Antonio, a musician. She has no luck finding money until she becomes involved with the Baron, a drug trafficker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alexandre Borges, Hamilton Vaz Pereira, (more)
