jm10701 This interesting movie's story and characters are overshadowed by Murilo Benício's tour-de-force performance as Carlos - rather as the three Carloses. He is so stunning that it's hard to care or even be aware of anything else.Just watching him shift so expertly and so convincingly and with such apparent ease and mastery between the three very different personas is vastly entertaining and makes the movie definitely worth watching, but it also makes appreciating anything else about the movie nearly impossible. I suspect that Carolina Ferraz's three Júlias and Emilio de Melo's three Pedros are equally impressive, but they persistently fade into the background beside Benício's brilliance.It makes me want to watch his other movies to see if he so dramatically dominates everything he does, or if director Sandra Werneck just pulled this extraordinary performance out of him. He's much like Marlon Brando, in that his monumental talent as an actor, his almost superhuman physical beauty, and the strength of his presence so outshine everything around him that it's hard to see anything or anybody else in the movie. Brando was like that in every movie he made; it'll be interesting to see if the same is true of Murilo Benício.

Fafa Says Carlos, a lawyer, has three different lives but one thing is the same: A dream about ex girlfriend, Julia. Years earlier, Carlos and Julia were supposed to meet at the movies. She never showed up. The first Carlos is married to his wife, Maria, but is not very happy with his life. The second Carlos is divorced with a son and lives with his male lover. The third Carlos is single with a string of different girlfriends and lives at home with his mother.Each man is reunited with his love, Julia, but the ending for each man is not what you'd expect. Amores Possíveis (Possible Loves) is an interesting story of three different possible loves. It is acted out well by the main characters Murilo Benico and Carolina Ferraz who play multiple parts. I also liked the music soundtrack, which featured songs by musicians like Chico Buarque, Zizi Possi, Ana Carolina, João Gilberto, Paulinho Moska, Bonga, Afro Cuban All Stars and much more.

David *Minor spoilers*Easily one of the most inventive and refreshing romantic comedies I've seen in quite some time, POSSIBLE LOVES adapts the influence or structure of films like RUN LOLA RUN (or even RASHOMON) and uses it to breathe new life into a questionable genre.The basic scenario revolves around a man, stood up by a woman he's made a date with. 15 years later (a certain suspension of disbelief is called for here) they run into each other, and she wonders what his life has been like during the intervening years (they are at least comfortably middle-class in all versions of the story). In response, 3 imagined scenarios - told from his perspective - are offered as possibilities: as a high-powered, and unhappily married yuppie executive, as a young gay man leaving a fractured marriage for a new life with his companion, or as a perpetually adolescent slacker (with a string of questionable ex-girlfriends) living in his mother's sprawling home. In all scenarios, they both are still - in the context of each story - looking for affection and stability that in unspoken ways has still managed to elude them.The film shifts between the three scenarios (they aren't presented in order) continually, and all three portrayals are depicted with great warmth, subtle detail and feature great performances from Murilo Benício and Carolina Ferraz, who both display a startling range as they enact the three variations on "what if..." If you're looking for social realism, you won't find it here (which is fine; there are other, excellent places to look for that) - POSSIBLE LOVES is instead a sweet-natured fairy tale of sorts, that nonetheless manages to playfully tweak viewers' perceptions with the deliberate unreality of tiny details in each of the the three scenarios. Simple but elegant cinematography captures Rio at its' stunning best. Very well-crafted and entertaining - I finished this film shocked that it didn't gain a wider audience in the US.

Dennis M Three different stories, or better possible lives, all starting with something insignificant but determining 15 years ago. This script sounds really familiar to me. Watch the marvelous movie from the German director Tom Tykwer 'Lola rennt' (1998) with the tagline: "Every second of every day you're faced with a decision that can change your life." Go see them both!