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When we first meet Darlene, the amazing rural woman of "Me You Them," she is expecting, but minus the father. However, don't worry too much about her. Darlene has a way of working things out. Can she find another man? How about three?
Time passes, and first an older man in want of a wife makes her a proposition to marry him and move into his relatively substantial house. He promises to give her and her son a good life. But once married, he orders her about and treats her as if she is his slave. He is slovenly and what little sex there is occurs when he gets a selfish urge. Darlene is not someone to take this lying down, so to speak, and before long romance blossoms with her husband's cousin, who lusts for her. Soon he is also living in the house.
The menage a trois is going along, not without jealousies. Darlene works in the cane fields, and there she meets a sexy co-worker who is passing through and now the real sexual smoldering begins. Her husband invites him to stay at the house, mostly to make the second man jealous--drive him a bit crazy in fact. By the time we leave the unconventional group, now a menage a quatre, there is an assortment of three more children.
What makes the film, directed by by Andrucha Waddington and scripted by Elena Soarez, sly fun is how Darlene proceeds to maneuver life in this rural outpost, making the best of things so that ultimately all works out--on her terms, with the men and her assorted offspring. Supposedly this was inspired by a true story. Regina Case is one of Brazil's renowned television stars and she brings an earthiness to the part of Darlene that is appealing and amusing. Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia and Luiz Carlos Vanconcelos make the men believable. As you might expect from a Brazilian film, music (by Gilberto Gil) plays an important part in creating the right atmosphere for this most entertaining diversion. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
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