Product: Me You Them (2001)
Rating: 2.0
A woman with a libido
A Brazilian woman in her mid 30s is set to marry a man--she's pregnant by him--and he dumps her. She then finds another man with a house whom, she figures, can care for her child. She marries him. But, as it happens, he's lazy and wants her to wait on him hand and foot. Still, being a good wife and all, she engages in connubial bliss with him. She's pregnant again. Kid number two. But her husband is not the warmest of people.The husband has a friend who's at the house quite a bit, who's much warmer than the husband and the woman becomes interested in the friend. They enjoy each other deeply and soon she's pregnant yet again. OK, so because you can count, of course, by now she's up to 3 kids. Now the friend is really nice and warm, et cetera, but he's not what you would call sexy.OK. Then in the fields where she works, she meets another guy and this one IS sexy. Oh yeah. So they go to an isolated part of the field and enjoy each other deeply. (Believe me, there's a LOT of enjoying deeply going on in this flick). Then, you got it, she's preggers again. Kid number four.OK, so the friend--who's already living in the house--now has to share the living space not only with the original husband and the woman, but also with this new sexy guy AND four kids. So now we're up to, let's see, eight people. That's a lot of people for a small house in rural Brazil. Oh yeah.That's the story in a nutshell. It was no doubt made as a cry for women's independence--i.e., see, a woman can do these things too; it's not just a man who loves sex and can have it with whoever he wants.The point is made repeatedly. I have no beef with women's lib or a woman being independent or a woman enjoying deeply. I just think a much better movie could have been made with this theme. The two stars are for the cinematography which is excellent, and for the superb music by Gilberto Gil. Buy the soundtrack; it's excellent.