Alice's House (A Casa de Alice) Critic Reviews

Chico Teixeira’s languid, libidinous Alice’s House is the best argument against marriage and motherhood to appear in many a year.Read the full review

Teixeira elicits extraordinary performances from his entire cast.Read the full review

What Teixeira has set out to do, and accomplished brilliantly, is to find drama and pathos in the mundane details, thoughtless betrayals and casual cruelties. What lingers after watching Alice's House are not the moments of conflict but the inexorable rhythms of daily life.Read the full review

Even though it sounds awfully depressing, there's something moving about watching people go at their lives with everything they have -- or don't have.Read the full review

If telenovelas were convincingly real, they would no doubt look like the tumultuous world of domestic strife and libido deftly limned in Alice's House. Documaker Chico Teixeira gives a light, natural feel to his small but fetching first feature.Read the full review