Bela Donna

Very nice and underrated romantic drama, an adaptation of José Lins do Rêgo's novel Riacho Doce. Beautifully filmed, it shows gorgeous beaches and nature, a cute small town and lovelly old cars, besides quite hot sex scenes between Natasha Henstridge and Du Moscovis. Not all characters are equally developped, but all of them have their issues, even when appearing subtly, in the face expression of the actor or actress who plays a minor character. The II World War is a far away background that locates temporally the story, that could have happened at any time. The movie begins slightly sluggish, but it does improve and becones very engaging. It brings several issues such as infidelity, cultural differences, capitalist greed, new colonialism, mysticism mysoginy, racism and xenophoby, nazism and anti-semitism, abuse of power, many frustrated love interests, simple traditional life, the fetish for emigrating to the big city. A Brazil/USA production, it is spoken both in English and Portuguese, curiously more in the former language tha nin the later, although having just three actors who are not Brazilian.

Director Fabio Barreto got a strange Academy Nominea for his last movie O Quatrilho. Quatrilho is a bad movie, but in Bella Donna, Barreto did one of the Worst movies of All Time. His adaptation of the novel Riacho Doce is ridiculous. Think with me how poor brazilians fishermen speak a perfect english? In the film they do. There isn't a Screenplay, It's only a very long videoclip with a beautiful places and many sex scenes with Moscovis and Henstridge.

I have seen one vidcap of this movie, and I am stunned. Natasha has done some nude/love scenes before, but this one was especially hot! As for the movie itself, I saw a couple parts (not the sexy ones :() of it. Where can I see all of this movie, rent it, or buy it? Please help.

The movie is a happy lullaby, was made to make us sleep. And that´s what we do, as we dream about the top beautiful Natasha Henstridge. No screenplay, no deep characters, nothing special. So, let´s sleep.

Does anyone know where it is available? If so send message through this excellent database. Some of her earlier films continue to be unreleased, but I keep looking. Besides her beauty, her biggest appeal is her straight forwardness and open attitude.