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By Erin E (47) on 21 Oct 2007

Not the best movie, but I did fall in love with the Brazillian/Bossa Nova feel! As an ELL teacher it is one of my personal favorites…

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By Cassie B (70) on 01 Aug 2007

This movie reminds me of when I took learning Portuguese seriously…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 03 Jan 2007

A splashy, slick, tuneful, rigorously old-fashioned romantic comedy…

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By Megan B (429) on 19 Apr 2006

This is a superb movie. Awesome Brazilian actors…

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By Ina S (123) on 23 Feb 2006

It's hardly like me to give such good ratings to romantic films, but for anyone who loves Rio and Brazil this must be the quintessential love…

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By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jan 2006

The coincidences that bring some characters together and keep others apart in this romantic comedy are plotted with musical grace…

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By Gregory Weinkauf (347) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 16 Dec 2005

Sits before us like an exquisite platter of wax fruit, colorful, flavorless, and, if you eat it, very likely to come back up…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 Jun 2005

The air smells sweet and there's a thrumming beat in Bossa Nova…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for Film.com (1,892) on 30 May 2003

Despite the frivolous feel, it's clear the director intends for Bossa Nova to be a love letter to his two passions: Brazil and his leading…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 23 Apr 2003

Tilts toward the slight and merely pleasant when it could have had much more emotional impact…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 01 Dec 2002

Sort of like a Jennifer Lopez video: pretty to look at, easy on the ears, but ultimately completely vacuous and lackluster…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 02 Jun 2001

This suffocatingly pleasant cross between Sliding Doors and Six Degrees of Separation is barely rescued by one beautiful scene…

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By Jorge Avila Andrade (300) for Moviola (300) on 14 Mar 2001

La cadencia y el romance generado por la propia naturaleza de la música hace de Bossa Nova un romance de altura, de gran madurez y sumamente elegante…

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