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La Mujer de mi Hermano

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La Mujer de mi Hermano (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 39

Fresh: 8

Rotten:31

Average Rating: 4.3/10

Consensus: No better than an R-rated "telenovela," with the requisite love triangle involving uncommonly attractive players and banal plotlines.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexuality and language

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Apr 14, 2006 Limited

Box Office: $2,752,399

Synopsis: An international cast of beauties brings cosmopolitan flavor to what could have been a typical melodrama. Adapted from the best-selling novel by Peruvian author Jaime Bayly, LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO... An international cast of beauties brings cosmopolitan flavor to what could have been a typical melodrama. Adapted from the best-selling novel by Peruvian author Jaime Bayly, LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO (English translation--MY BROTHER'S WIFE) is a soap-operatic tale, complete with adulterous transgressions, hysterical breakdowns, devastating betrayals, and a shocking finale. Stunning Uruguayan actress Barbara Mori is the focal point of this Byzantine affair, entrancing viewers with her nuanced performance as Zoe. In the tradition of those Douglas Sirk heroines who made it a gorgeous act to suffer quietly, Zoe is wildly unhappy and frustrated with her dying marriage to Ignacio (Peruvian soap star Christian Meier). Not content to remain isolated in her high-class Mexico city apartment--a stylishly cold fortress of minimalist design and shiny surfaces--Zoe seeks out Ignacio's estranged brother Gonzalo (Colombian hunk Manolo Cardona). A volatile artist, Gonzalo is a man of sensations and extremes, thus serving as the perfect antidote to Zoe's dull, stale life. The two strike up the inevitable passionate affair, but what follows is as unexpected as the set-up is standard. Zoe's transgression leads not only to her debilitating Catholic guilt, but also to a revived relationship between the brothers, whose new communication brings a startling revelation about the past. Peruvian director Ricardo de Montreuil leads this production with a sure hand, eliciting performances more complex than in the typical soap opera. Though it can veer toward slightly over-the-top melodrama, the film is too intelligently written and acted to be passed off as fluff, and instead is a serious, deep look into the eternal problems of love, sexuality, and betrayal. [More]

Starring: Barbara Mori, Christian Meier, Angelica Aragon, Bruno Bichir

Starring: Barbara Mori, Christian Meier, Angelica Aragon, Bruno Bichir

Director: Ricardo de Montreuil

Director: Ricardo de Montreuil
Screenwriter: Jamie Bayly
Producer: Stan Jakubowicz
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Peter Sobczynski
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Here's a 'steamy' soap opera that's never very steamy, and if you set your expectations low, this movie is only too happy to meet them.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
05/05/06
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times

It's a gorgeously mounted soap, with enough third-act surprises to justify its reputation (it was a huge hit in Latin America).

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment 1 Comment
05/05/06
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

With one-dimensional characters stuck in a plot that gives them nothing noteworthy to do, only the most superficial aspects remain to be admired: the attractive cast, their attractive clothes and the attractive houses in which they live.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
05/05/06
Marc Mohan
Oregonian

Soapy, sappy, silly and sluggish, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) is one of those issue movies that wants to cram every hot topic it can think of into a melodramatic situation.

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05/05/06
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Debut director Ricardo de Montreuil only cares about filming pretty people in the most hackneyed positions imaginable.

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John Monaghan
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A stylish soap opera that casts cultural dramas as melodrama.

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Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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Brisk, shallow, highly condensed version of a telenovela.

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Justine Elias
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The movie knows exactly what it's doing, and does exactly what it intends, without making one false move.

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05/04/06
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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Stars actors from all over South America and was shot in Chile by a Peruvian director, yet what it most closely resembles is a Mexican soap opera.

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05/03/06
Eric D. Snider
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if a movie ever needed a gratuitous shot of a breast or a bare a** it's La Mujer de Mi Hermano

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04/29/06
Pete Croatto
Filmcritic.com

90 minutes of wheezing emotional flare-ups, played with such straight-faced sobriety that I wanted to slap these people and tell them all to lighten up

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04/20/06
Jay Antani
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