Spoiler Alert: This post contains details of the final episode of Max’s Beleza Fatal.
After 40 episodes, Beleza Fatal (Scars of Beauty) ended, and viewers finally found out what happened to Lola (Camila Pitanga), Sofía (Camila Queiroz), and Elvirinha (Giovanna Antonelli).
Max Brazil’s first telenovela didn’t have a happy ending for its lead characters, as is customary in the genre.
The lead question in the episode was about who killed Benjamin Argentino (Caio Blat). A woman with a head scarf and oversized shades ended Benjamin’s life, and all signs pointed to Lola. However, she denied being the culprit of the murder and was visibly devastated over her husband’s death.
Before viewers find out who killed Benjamin, we find out what happens to the rest of the characters.
With Benjamin’s death, Gisela (Julia Stockler) and Carol (Manu Morelli) inherit the Argento hospital and rename it after...
After 40 episodes, Beleza Fatal (Scars of Beauty) ended, and viewers finally found out what happened to Lola (Camila Pitanga), Sofía (Camila Queiroz), and Elvirinha (Giovanna Antonelli).
Max Brazil’s first telenovela didn’t have a happy ending for its lead characters, as is customary in the genre.
The lead question in the episode was about who killed Benjamin Argentino (Caio Blat). A woman with a head scarf and oversized shades ended Benjamin’s life, and all signs pointed to Lola. However, she denied being the culprit of the murder and was visibly devastated over her husband’s death.
Before viewers find out who killed Benjamin, we find out what happens to the rest of the characters.
With Benjamin’s death, Gisela (Julia Stockler) and Carol (Manu Morelli) inherit the Argento hospital and rename it after...
- 3/22/2025
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Beleza Fatal (Scars of Beauty) wraps up its run after 40 episodes and has viewers guessing what will happen to all the characters.
The Max series is the first Brazilian telenovela made exclusively for the streamer. It stars Camila Pitanga, Camila Queiroz, and Giovanna Antonelli.
What is Beleza Fatal about?
Pitanga plays Lola, who made her cousin take the blame for killing her husband, assuring her she would help her get out of jail. However, Lola had no intention of keeping her word and instead was part of a plot to have her killed in prison.
Queiroz plays Sofía, a woman avenging her mother who befriends Lola under the identity of Júlia. Sofía’s mission is to get close to her aunt Lola, take her down, and have her pay for all the harm she has done.
When does the Beleza Fatal series finale air?
Max premiered Beleza Fatal on January...
The Max series is the first Brazilian telenovela made exclusively for the streamer. It stars Camila Pitanga, Camila Queiroz, and Giovanna Antonelli.
What is Beleza Fatal about?
Pitanga plays Lola, who made her cousin take the blame for killing her husband, assuring her she would help her get out of jail. However, Lola had no intention of keeping her word and instead was part of a plot to have her killed in prison.
Queiroz plays Sofía, a woman avenging her mother who befriends Lola under the identity of Júlia. Sofía’s mission is to get close to her aunt Lola, take her down, and have her pay for all the harm she has done.
When does the Beleza Fatal series finale air?
Max premiered Beleza Fatal on January...
- 3/19/2025
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
The program announcements continue for the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival this week, with the full Panorama line-up now confirmed.
Adding to the initial titles unveiled back in April are films including Alain Guiraudie’s Nobody’s Hero, which opens the strand this year.
Also confirmed today were the titles that will participate in the Berlinale Series Market and Co-Pro Series event this year.
Taking part in Berlinale Series Market Selects will be The Fear Index, the upcoming show from Left Bank Pictures that is set to star Josh Hartnett, as well as projects from Keshet, Viaplay and Globo. See the full lists below.
Tomorrow, Berlin chiefs Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek will unveil the 2022 Competition line-up at an event that kicks off at 11Am Cet.
Panorama Additions:
Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm
Germany
by Cem Kaya
World premiere / Panorama Dokumente
Baqyt (Happiness)
Kazakhstan
by Askar Uzabayev
with Laura Myrzakhmetova,...
Adding to the initial titles unveiled back in April are films including Alain Guiraudie’s Nobody’s Hero, which opens the strand this year.
Also confirmed today were the titles that will participate in the Berlinale Series Market and Co-Pro Series event this year.
Taking part in Berlinale Series Market Selects will be The Fear Index, the upcoming show from Left Bank Pictures that is set to star Josh Hartnett, as well as projects from Keshet, Viaplay and Globo. See the full lists below.
Tomorrow, Berlin chiefs Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek will unveil the 2022 Competition line-up at an event that kicks off at 11Am Cet.
Panorama Additions:
Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm
Germany
by Cem Kaya
World premiere / Panorama Dokumente
Baqyt (Happiness)
Kazakhstan
by Askar Uzabayev
with Laura Myrzakhmetova,...
- 1/18/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Hitting MipTV with a bang, Globo is unveiling a new Globoplay Original, “A Woman’s Fate,” which traces a clear through line with banner Globo titles from “Aruanas” to “A Mother’s Love.”
Globo’s biggest new offering at MipTV, “A Woman’s Fate” also heads up Brazilian TV giant’s market slate which primes gender issues, declaring emblazoned by the unequivocal slogan “The Future is Female.”
Written by Martha Mendonça, Nelito Fernandes, Jo Abdu and Adriana Falcão, the series follows three women whose life tangle when the eldest, Stella, played by Renata Sorrah, decides at her 72 years and during her golden wedding anniversary that she wants a divorce.
Taking control of her life, Stella sets in motion a domino effect that will impact the life of daughter Lívia (Giovanna Antonelli), who unknowingly lives in an unhappy marriage, and Cléo, a working class young woman who begins the series neck-deep in debt.
Globo’s biggest new offering at MipTV, “A Woman’s Fate” also heads up Brazilian TV giant’s market slate which primes gender issues, declaring emblazoned by the unequivocal slogan “The Future is Female.”
Written by Martha Mendonça, Nelito Fernandes, Jo Abdu and Adriana Falcão, the series follows three women whose life tangle when the eldest, Stella, played by Renata Sorrah, decides at her 72 years and during her golden wedding anniversary that she wants a divorce.
Taking control of her life, Stella sets in motion a domino effect that will impact the life of daughter Lívia (Giovanna Antonelli), who unknowingly lives in an unhappy marriage, and Cléo, a working class young woman who begins the series neck-deep in debt.
- 4/11/2021
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Film review" 'Bossa Nova'
In "Bossa Nova", director Bruno Barreto serves up a dreamy Rio de Janeiro that pulsates to the beat of Antonio Carlos Jobim bossa nova classics, a Rio of midnight swims and intimate strolls along Copacabana beach, where romance lingers in the humid night air.
It's the Rio of travel agents' dreams rather than the urban nightmare Barreto portrayed in his frightening 1978 crime melodrama "Amor Bandido". While this Rio may intrigue romantically inclined adults, even they may feel cheated by lightweight fare that is more a tempting Brazilian hors d'oeuvres than a satisfying dinner by candlelight. Sony Classics should anticipate no more than modest returns in urban markets.
Although an ensemble piece, the film very much stars Barreto's wife, American actress Amy Irving. Playing an English teacher who stays on in Rio following the death of her Brazilian husband, she remains aloof from this tropical pleasure zone. Like a flower placed between the pages of a book for years, Irving's Mary Ann Simpson looks beautifully preserved but dead to her surroundings.
Barreto and writers Alexandre Machado and Fernanda Young, working from Sergio Sant'Anna's novel "Miss Simpson", place Mary Ann amid a whirligig of comic misunderstandings and near-farcical romantic pursuits that mostly feel forced and mechanical.
The paths of nine characters crisscross Mary Ann,'s with attorney Pedro Paulo (veteran actor Antonio Fagundes) at the focal point. Pedro's wife (Debora Bloch) has left him for her tai chi teacher (Kazuo Matsui). Mary Ann teaches English in the same building that houses the tailor shop of Paulo's father (Alberto de Mendoza).
One of Mary Ann's students (Drica Moraes) has fallen in love, sight unseen, with a New Yorker with whom she trades lies about lifestyle and physical attributes via the Internet. Another student, a soccer star (Alexandre Borges), must brush up on his English upon his move to a British club. Then Pedro's half-brother (Pedro Cardoso) falls for Pedro's legal intern (Giovanna Antonelli), who in turn develops a thing for the soccer star. Everything comes to a head with the arrival of the Internet lover (Stephen Tobolowsky).
The film's reliance on perfectly timed entrances and exits and fortuitous coincidences at times gives "Bossa Nova" a contrived feeling. Barreto manages the multiple plots and love affairs well, and the film is not without its moments of subtle charm and amiable comedy. The music -- both Jobim's and original work by Eumir Deodato -- and Pascal Rabaud's postcard-perfect cinematography establish the romance of this mythical Rio even if the viewer doesn't always buy into the romantic trysts.
The mood is playful, but the characters lie very near the surface. And the attempt to mingle laughter with tears never comes off. The most egregious stumble comes when Barreto brings all of the characters together for a climax at a hospital, where Pedro's father lies dying of a heart attack.
And Irving's feminine enigma floats through the movie in a way that Brazilians may find seductive and exotic. But to American viewers, she may seem like an emotional zombie.
BOSSA NOVA
Sony Pictures Classics
LC Barreto & Filmes do Equador
in association with Globo Filmes
Producers: Lucy Barreto, Luiz Carlos Barreto
Director: Bruno Barreto
Screenwriters: Alexandre Machado,
Fernanda Young
Based on a novel by: Sergio Sant'Anna
Executive producer: Bruno Barreto
Director of photography: Pascal Rabaud
Production designers: Cassio Amarante,
Carla Caffe
Music: Eumir Deodato
Costume designer: Emilia Duncan
Editor: Ray Hubley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mary Ann: Amy Irving
Pedro Paulo: Antonio Fagundes
Acacio: Alexandre Borges
Tania: Debora Bloch
Nadine: Drica Moraes
Sharon: Giovanna Antonelli
Trevor: Stephen Tobolowsky
Roberto: Pedro Cardoso
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
It's the Rio of travel agents' dreams rather than the urban nightmare Barreto portrayed in his frightening 1978 crime melodrama "Amor Bandido". While this Rio may intrigue romantically inclined adults, even they may feel cheated by lightweight fare that is more a tempting Brazilian hors d'oeuvres than a satisfying dinner by candlelight. Sony Classics should anticipate no more than modest returns in urban markets.
Although an ensemble piece, the film very much stars Barreto's wife, American actress Amy Irving. Playing an English teacher who stays on in Rio following the death of her Brazilian husband, she remains aloof from this tropical pleasure zone. Like a flower placed between the pages of a book for years, Irving's Mary Ann Simpson looks beautifully preserved but dead to her surroundings.
Barreto and writers Alexandre Machado and Fernanda Young, working from Sergio Sant'Anna's novel "Miss Simpson", place Mary Ann amid a whirligig of comic misunderstandings and near-farcical romantic pursuits that mostly feel forced and mechanical.
The paths of nine characters crisscross Mary Ann,'s with attorney Pedro Paulo (veteran actor Antonio Fagundes) at the focal point. Pedro's wife (Debora Bloch) has left him for her tai chi teacher (Kazuo Matsui). Mary Ann teaches English in the same building that houses the tailor shop of Paulo's father (Alberto de Mendoza).
One of Mary Ann's students (Drica Moraes) has fallen in love, sight unseen, with a New Yorker with whom she trades lies about lifestyle and physical attributes via the Internet. Another student, a soccer star (Alexandre Borges), must brush up on his English upon his move to a British club. Then Pedro's half-brother (Pedro Cardoso) falls for Pedro's legal intern (Giovanna Antonelli), who in turn develops a thing for the soccer star. Everything comes to a head with the arrival of the Internet lover (Stephen Tobolowsky).
The film's reliance on perfectly timed entrances and exits and fortuitous coincidences at times gives "Bossa Nova" a contrived feeling. Barreto manages the multiple plots and love affairs well, and the film is not without its moments of subtle charm and amiable comedy. The music -- both Jobim's and original work by Eumir Deodato -- and Pascal Rabaud's postcard-perfect cinematography establish the romance of this mythical Rio even if the viewer doesn't always buy into the romantic trysts.
The mood is playful, but the characters lie very near the surface. And the attempt to mingle laughter with tears never comes off. The most egregious stumble comes when Barreto brings all of the characters together for a climax at a hospital, where Pedro's father lies dying of a heart attack.
And Irving's feminine enigma floats through the movie in a way that Brazilians may find seductive and exotic. But to American viewers, she may seem like an emotional zombie.
BOSSA NOVA
Sony Pictures Classics
LC Barreto & Filmes do Equador
in association with Globo Filmes
Producers: Lucy Barreto, Luiz Carlos Barreto
Director: Bruno Barreto
Screenwriters: Alexandre Machado,
Fernanda Young
Based on a novel by: Sergio Sant'Anna
Executive producer: Bruno Barreto
Director of photography: Pascal Rabaud
Production designers: Cassio Amarante,
Carla Caffe
Music: Eumir Deodato
Costume designer: Emilia Duncan
Editor: Ray Hubley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mary Ann: Amy Irving
Pedro Paulo: Antonio Fagundes
Acacio: Alexandre Borges
Tania: Debora Bloch
Nadine: Drica Moraes
Sharon: Giovanna Antonelli
Trevor: Stephen Tobolowsky
Roberto: Pedro Cardoso
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 5/1/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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