Indie Film Festival Berlin 2000 Review: Bossa Nova

By Azad February 26, 2000 1:36 AM

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(indieWIRE) - In many ways the most difficult of films to pull off properly, the mainstream romantic sex comedy, often ends up looking forced and perfunctory, the exact opposite of the light, breezy, mildly erotic tone filmmakers have in mind.?Thus, the engaging "Bossa Nova," which elicited surprised smiles and a round of sincere applause from the weary journalists who trudged to the 10:30 am press show on the last day of the recently wrapped Berlin Film Festival, is a double surprise.?Not only did it close the festival out on a mildly naughty but commercially nice note of tropical whimsy (from all reports the public seemed to embrace it as well), but it announces a return to his native Brazil and comic form for director Bruno Barreto, whose "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" achieved the same balancing act and was thus an art-house hit in the states some 22 years ago, eventually garnering a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film.

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