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

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

Hélène Louvart's beautiful and evocative cinematography adds much to the melodrama. The colors are vibrant and the frame shifts are seamless.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2020

Invisible Life is constructed on heightened emotional intensity in an everyday domestic milieu, with discreet touches of narrative contrivance playing their part--

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 6, 2020

Let's just say there's closure: It isn't shocking, but rather a heartbreaking one - a bookend to the long, sad story that delivers, in contrast to all the dismal developments that have come before it, a kind of bittersweet satisfaction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 2, 2020

By the end, you will feel like you've been somewhere, and you know these people. Guida and Euridice just might stay with you for a long time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 31, 2019

This is a perfectly beautiful movie, although so deeply painful.

| Dec 27, 2019

[The ending] belatedly transforms Invisible Life from a logy, overlong present-tense story into a tenuous but moving expression of personal memory.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 26, 2019

This is an absolutely gorgeous film that starts off as a sort of Rio fairytale and then turns into something a little more realistic with its feet on the ground.

| Dec 20, 2019

A hopeful celebration of female camaraderie and strength.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 20, 2019

Traducing genuine suffering as mere histrionics (even the scaling of a fish becomes an excuse for violence), Aïnouz unnerves and alienates where he might illuminate.

| Dec 20, 2019

It's a drama of resilient women, thoughtless men and crushingly unrealized dreams, told with supple grace, deep feeling and an empathy that extends in every direction.

| Dec 19, 2019

Through a richly layered lens of myth-building and melodrama, Ainouz manages to capture the heartbreak, solitude and resilience of women on the verge.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2019

Its mix of vivid period detail and raw frankness about sexuality and poverty and women's oppression is heady and bracing; its depiction of female friendship and love is pointedly ferocious.

| Dec 19, 2019

Only rarely does Karim Aïnouz allow for loopholes to refreshingly emerge from the film's stylistic deadlock.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2019

"Invisible Life" is a heady blend of the casual, the sorrowful, the near-mythical, and the carnally explicit...

| Dec 13, 2019

[A] wilderness of life and oppressive gender roles...

| Oct 29, 2019

A waking dream, saturated in sound, music and color to match its depth of feeling.

| May 25, 2019

An affecting portrait of sisterhood divided.

| May 20, 2019