What happens when actors playing doomed lovers start falling for real? Absolute chaos, darling.
During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Pedro and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.
Acting
Wagner Moura and Letícia Sabatella's layered, self-aware performances.
Direction
Guel Arraes' playful blurring of stage and screen reality.
Director
Guel Arraes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Arraes' own 1996 stage production, continuing Brazil's tradition of metatheatrical cinema.
Wagner Moura would later become internationally famous as Pablo Escobar in Narcos—a very different kind of performance.
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