
‘Invisible Life’ Review: An Unabashed, Affecting Brazilian Melodrama
Posted on Thursday, December 26th, 2019 by Marshall Shaffer
There came a point early on in Karim Aïnouz’s drama of separated sisters, Invisible Life, where I wondered if the way he depicted a scene veered a little too sharply into the melodramatic and borderline hysterical. Then I remembered how the poster billed the film: a tropical melodrama. Once I reset my bearings a bit, I found the narrative quite engrossing and the story rather moving.