O convite ao prazer

Narrating the extra-marital adventures of Luciano, a middle-class dentist, and Marcelo, a wealthy businessman, who renew their curious friendship after a lengthy hiatus, Invitation to Pleasure is a not-so-distant sister piece to Walter Hugo Khouri’s better-known 1960s films about alienated big city dwellers.
Touching on similar existential dread – this time largely through the lens of pathologically sex-obsessed white males – Luciano leeches off Marcelo, whose luxurious lifestyle attracts a vast array of beautiful women. Parallel to this, the men’s wives – Anita and Ana – contemplate a radical course of action in the light of their husbands’ betrayals.
Drawing from Antonioni and Bergman, while also folding in uniquely Brazilian themes, Invitation to Pleasure is a complex look at the male psyche, underlining ambivalence even as it relishes the exquisite physiques of its Boca starlets.

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