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Os 3 (2011) is a Portuguese movie. Nando Olival has directed this movie. Gabriel Godoy,Victor Mendes,Juliana Schalch,Sophia Reis are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. Os 3 (2011) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Three young people arrive from different parts of the country to go to college in Sao Paulo. On their first day there, a strange and intense attraction unites them. Together, they rent an apartment and begin living together, in close quarters. Sharing kisses and fond embraces. They exchange words of endearment with the naturalness of ordering a sandwich at a diner. They threaten to break up and the next moment they are all laughing together again. College days however soon come to an end and, with each having different paths to trail, separation is imminent. And consequently, their gestures, words and attitudes take on a new weight. Touching each other now takes on a new significance. Words of love are weighed down by consequences.
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Os 3 (2011) Reviews
Well-Behaved and Timid Threesome
The college students Cazé (Gabriel Godoy), Rafael (Victor Mendes) and Camila (Juliana Schalch) meet each other in a party in São Paulo and they immediately become best friends. Rafael and Camila move to the old apartment rented by Cazé and Camila creates rules for their relationship making them promise that they would never date her. Rafael has a crush on Camila but he accepts her rules. However, he discovers that Camila and Cazé are sleeping together but he stays with them. When they graduate, Rafael decides to move to Rio de Janeiro to work as editor. However, the trio of friends is invited to participate in a reality show by Guilherme in a marketing campaign to sell products. They are monitored by cameras and decide to simulate a threesome and their lives become a farce, hiding the truth about the feelings of Rafael and their apartment becomes a stage and affecting their relationship. In 1962, François Truffaut made the bold "Jules et Jim" with an unconventional love story and Jeanne Moreau performing a character ahead of time. In 2011, the director Nando Olival made "Os 3", with a conventional love story of unrequited love and a well-behaved and timid threesome. The story is pointless and dull, and the character Barbara is absolutely misplaced in the plot. The good point is the performances and the chemistry of the coquette Juliana Schalch, Victor Mendes and Gabriel Godoy. My vote is five. Title (Brazil): "Os 3" ("The 3")
a parody with substance and style
Scottish comedian Billy Connolly once described the act of watching Big Brother as 'sitting in a house watching people sitting in a house' with great incredulity, and this film adds a third layer - multitudes of people in the film themselves watch people sitting in a house, and i feel it's a wonderfully sharp and relevant indictment, portrait, celebration etc. of the age of reality TV, of the internet, of the positively voyeuristic, obsessive interconnectivity of this burgeoning cultural era. 3 people who've just arrived in the city, starting a course at university, meet at a party and decide to use the toilet at the same time because they're all dying to go, and the success of that act of cooperation inspires them to move in together the next day and a firm bond between the trio is established; it's also challenged by the complexities of passion, lust, friendship and love, the 4 watchwords described at the beginning; at the end of their 4 year course, their idea - to host a Big Brother show filled with brands which can then be purchased by viewers online - is seized upon by an alumni who offers to pay them to be the subjects of their own show, which they agree to. i personally think it's a stupid idea, but then i've always despised reality TV; it starts slowly, but when they're told the plug is to be pulled and they get wasted and appear to initiate a love triangle, ratings and product sales explode and various contrivances and characters and plot twists in the house and the film itself unfold. i found these events that unfold to be fascinating and subtly very clever because we're trying to work out if the characters are being genuine or playing to the cameras, and all the while we're watching a film in which characters are performing this plot - i think it's basically a wonderful parody of dramatisation and acting itself, and it strikes the perfect chord both in the performances and the denouement. all in all, i thought it was an enjoyable, intriguing and satisfying portrayal of the complexity of human relationships, communication and connections, the nature of the curiosity and intrigue that drives the internet age and the nature of acting itself into the bargain, all in a crisply filmed, distinctly Brazilian package! i give we 3 9/10 with a cherry on top.