There’s not a single second wasted in a story which is not just about the strength of family bonds, but also doubles as an indictment of old-fashioned gender stereotypes.

| Feb 3, 2023

As great as the rest of the film is, it’s that final sequence that lifts it to potential all-timer status, pulling all the story threads together in an unexpected way to reach a crescendo of emotions that only the best melodramas can reach.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 13, 2022

Gorgeously filmed in rich, deep colours and infused with even stronger emotions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2021

The plot eventually loses pathos. Before then, however, it reaches its high point in a wonderfully staged moment of "so near yet so far".

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2021

The screenplay, adapted by Murilo Hauser, Inés Bortagaray and director Karim Aïnouz, is expertly calibrated. They don't often make them like this any more.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 17, 2021

Brazilian-born filmmaker Karim Aïnouz adapts Martha Batalha's 2016 novel of the same name into a sumptuous and moving melodrama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2021

The movie is saturated with emotion and colour, though its novelistic depth brings with it the slightly effortful running time of two hours and 20 minutes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2021

"The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao" is a very accessible film and a great success.

| Sep 22, 2021

The scope of emotionality is what lingers after the credits role.

| Original Score: 87/100 | Aug 19, 2021

The director proves himself less interested in narrative mechanics and causal logic than in the use of affect as an integral mode of perception, and its translation into expressionistic, emotionally charged, sometimes shocking images...

| Jul 13, 2021

A tropical melodrama that is so tactile you can practically smell all of the grime and bodily fluids presented on screen. The story of two sisters, torn apart by the men who surround them, is set in the 50s but speaks clearly to audiences today.

| Apr 14, 2021

A stirring portrait of two sisters separated by systemic social injustice in 1950s Brazil. By turns, 'Invisible Life' is horrifying, moving, educational, and bleak. Its hope comes in small bites that we must savor to survive.

| Apr 21, 2020

It's a movie that celebrates small things, while also acknowledging the larger injustices of life, and reinforcing the importance of connection.

| Apr 7, 2020

Ever feel invisible in plain sight navigating through life with no one really noticing your existence? Invisible Life beautifully captures the love and life of two sisters and the strength of women under the most dire of circumstances. Loved it!!!

| Apr 7, 2020

Movies need to fill our hearts with love before they can break them. Invisible Life does both.

| Apr 3, 2020

Aïnouz imbues Invisible Life with an intimacy that's at once blunt about bodily needs and evocative of the lushness of inner lives.

| Mar 2, 2020

Aïnouz and screenwriter Murilo Hauser deftly capture the sweep of years, even decades, as the two sisters live physically apart but spiritually together, their lives a rebuke to the patriarchal system that separated them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 9, 2020

This story of lost and missed opportunities should have more of an emotional heft that binds you to the characters. Unfortunately, at times, the movie feels distant, as if director Karim Aïnouz is content to simply allow you to watch events unfold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2020

The acting is very good in this movie, and the story is compelling, if somewhat far-fetched and overlong (140 minutes). I would have liked this movie more if it was more believable, and had a shorter running time.

| Original Score: B | Feb 1, 2020

It's an enchanting experience, one that emphasises the power of hope in times of helplessness and the importance of love above all else.

| Jan 29, 2020