Ney Latorraca Movies
- 2006
The stars of the Brazilian production of The Mystery of Irma Vep team with director/co-screenwriter Carla Camurati for a screen adaptation that finds Marco Nanini and Ney Latorraca each assuming duel roles as the remaining parts are filled by actors Thiago Fragosco, Marcos Caruso, Fernando Caruso, and Leandro Hassum. Latorraca portrays ex-stage star and struggling director Darcy and her overbearing mother while Nanini settles into the wheelchair of neurotic ex-star Tony and his booze-guzzling sister Cleide. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marco Nanini, Ney Latorraca, (more)
- 1995
- R
The lust for power, land and sex run amok in this off-kilter, comedic look at Brazilian history. The film opens on a rocky Scottish promontory where a bekilted young man begins telling the wide-eyed 10-year old Yolanda an exotic tale of the exploits of 18th-century bratty Spanish princess Carlota Joaquina who journeys to Portugal to marry prince Don Joao. The 10-year old princess is not impressed by the sedate court and her cowardly husband. Years pass, and she grows up, taking many different lovers along the way. In 1808, she and Don Joao are forced to sail to Brazil by the invader Napoleon. Don Joao chooses Rio de Janiero to set up his new court. By this time, Carlota has developed a limp and grown a moustache, but this does not stop her from continuing to have many affairs. She ends up falling in love with Fernando Leao, a rakish black fellow. Joaquina dreams of becoming Queen of the Amazon, but cannot because her husband is afraid to give her too much power. Upon their return to Portugal, their son Pedro fights for Brazil's independence and becomes the country's first emperor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1988
Made for Spanish television, Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (Fabula de la Bella Palomera) stars Claudia Ohana in the title role. Though she is a wife and mother, she is ardently pursued by powerful businessman Ney Latorraca, who uses Ohana's beloved pigeons to transmit messages of love to her. Eventually, a passionate affair results, with Latorraca claiming his "property" by painting a message on Ohana's abdomen. It is thus only a matter of time before the woman's husband tumbles to the clandestine romance. Gabriel Garcia Marquez co-adapted the script of Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier from his own short story. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana, (more)
- 1987
Here's one for the ecologists of the world. The Dolphin is nothing more or less than the story of a libidinous sea mammal! Walter Lima Jr., former Brazilian journalist and "auteur" of Brasil Anno 2000 (1969) and Xico Rei (1982), has cooked up the weird tale of a dolphin who, by the light of the full moon, transforms into a man. In this guise, he wriggles his way through a fishing village, mystically arousing the libido of every human female in sight. Normally, the other men in the village wouldn't mind -- except that every time the dolphin-man arrives, he scares away the fish. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Cassia Kiss, (more)
- 1986
Malandro is a Brazilian musical set in the Rio of the 1940s. Likeable prostitute Fabio Sabag is fired from her nightclub job. Fabio's pimp Edson Celulari vows vengeance upon the girl's odious ex-boss. Celulari sets about to seduce the club owner's daughter Claudia Ohana, but she proves to be no pushover. The play on which this film is based was very obviously influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, especially The Threepenny Opera and Happy Days. Malandro was released in Brazil as Opera do Malandro. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Edson Celulari, Claudia Ohana, (more)
- 1982
When a government official arrives to close down a girls' school, he is left alone for awhile to wait for the arrival of the school's administrators so he can give them official notice of the closure. In the meantime, he starts to daydream about the people he will soon be dismissing -- daydreams that constitute the story of this movie, and that center on the sexual yearnings of just about everyone from those in charge down to the custodian. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dina Sfat, Xuxa Lopes, (more)
- 1981
Based on a play by Nelson Rodrigues, the Kiss turns like a whirlwind around one innocent act: after an accident, a dying man is kissed by another man, out of compassion -- but this unusual gesture violates an ingrained social taboo that colors everyone's perception of what exactly happened. The man, Arandir Tarcisio Meira is hauled off to prison by corrupt police, and while he remains incarcerated, a journalist picks up the story and becomes obsessed with showing him up as a homosexual. The journalist himself is hardly a paradigm of mental stability, being tormented by the memory of how he had let his own son drown without doing anything to help him. His attacks ruin Arandir's life and when he finally gets out of prison, there is almost nowhere to turn. Arandir's father-in-law, with his own demons driving him to action, perceives him as the cause of his problems, and sees him as a way to exorcise his own inner torment. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tarcisio Meira, Ney Latorraca, (more)
