After almost ten years of marriage, the stunningly attractive Zoe (Mori) realizes that her marriage to Ignacio (Meier) no longer carries the passion and spark it once had. Emotionally adrift, she is left to search for those sensations once again, and soon finds herself seduced into the arms of Gonzalo (Cardona), her husband’s brother. AtAfter almost ten years of marriage, the stunningly attractive Zoe (Mori) realizes that her marriage to Ignacio (Meier) no longer carries the passion and spark it once had. Emotionally adrift, she is left to search for those sensations once again, and soon finds herself seduced into the arms of Gonzalo (Cardona), her husband’s brother. At first, Zoe becomes reinvigorated by the romance. But her decision soon launches a series of events that drives these three people through a gauntlet of revenge, secret and despair that will unravel them all. (Lionsgate)… Expand
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As pared down, stylish and deceptively simple as the stark glass and concrete block inhabited by two of its main characters, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother’s Wife) is an adultery drama that skips the big life lessons in favor of observing the mysterie
Some movies sell and you don’t know why. With La Mujer de mi Hermano, a big-screen romantic drama with the aura of a nicely steamed telenovela, you know why: because the three stars look good in plush white bathrobes, that’s why.
For all its gender-bending, La Mujer De Mi Hermano’s primary appeal is Mori’s stunning beauty.
The characters never come across as anything more than self-interested parties. It’s hard to have a rooting interest in any of their fates, and even less in the outcome of this movie.
Soapy melodrama and a small-screen cast undermine the first-time director’s efforts.
La Mujer lumbers along, trapped in a long-faced score that appears to have been borrowed from a thriller, and without a smidgen of the saving irony that might have made of it a decent screwball comedy.
An oddly unsexy melodrama in which every supposedly shocking revelation (rape, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia) is treated with the same blithe shrug of recognition. It’s numbing, especially with the film’s deadly serious mood.
