Leandra Leal, Luana Piovani, Lázaro Ramos

André, relatively poor, falls in love with Silvia, a neighbor whom he spy´s with a telescope. Falling more and more in love with her, he begins to follow her around the city and realizes she works in ...( read more  read more... )a clothing shop. He works in a xerox place and makes a copy of a brand new 50 real bill in order to buy a dress from her store. This becomes a vice and he begins to photocopy more and more money, until it gets out of control. However, things begin to go wrong when he decides that photcopying is not the only way to make money...

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R, 2 hrs. 3 min.

Directed by: Jorge Furtado

Release Date: April 22, 2005

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DVD Release Date: August 16, 2005

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  • January 13, 2009
    The Man Who Copied is a curiosity. It doesn't stick with a genre, and it's unclear to me if this is a fault or an asset. Jorge Furtado, the director, plays fast and loose with the story. He throws bits of this and that into the mix all of which adds up to an uncatogorizable film....( read more) Is it a thriller? A comedy? A romantic comedy? It's hard for me to even match this up with any other movie I've seen. I see this film as more of a sketch than an oiled machine, and yet, there's considerable depth to the story. (The story stuck with me for a while, and I spent some time discussing it with the friend I saw it with.) It's the depth, the incongruities that kept me thiking about it, that makes me like it. The Man Who Copied is anything but. It's an original.
  • December 31, 2007
    What to say? What to say about something that reached perfection? Are words enough? The 5 stars surely aren't. I guess the thing that most upsets me is the fact that only 38 people, out of thousands, have seen this... So then I make this little experiment... I click on City of...( read more) God below and... Ta-dah! 4814! I mean, I understand the diference of recognition, I do. But The Man Who Copied, without any type of comparisions, is as brilliant, as perfect as the same year's 'World Hit'! It has the same social relevance, shown through André's salary references, the fact that he has to steal to buy a 17$ jacket... Obviously the crime aspect is there, but without any kind of exagerated violence. Than it's also a comedy, a smart and touching one, that never makes you cry... On the contrary, it puts one big fat smile on your face. It can be hilarious at times, like the chicken scene (the other 37 will know what I mean...). Of course all this demands a talented cast. 'Talented' will probably not be enough in this case. Lázaro Ramos' performance is nothing less than stunning, showing the versatile actor that he is, with the perfect way he plays André, the shy 19 year old kid who works as a photocopier on a crapy store for his monthly 100$ wage, and that by night goes to his own world, with his drawing escapes or spying on his neighours (especially Silvia). The spying scenes are an obvious reference and trivute to Hitchcock's Rear Window by director Jorge Furtado. The rest of the cast doesn't desapoint either. Leandra Leal as the beautifully awkward Silvia, Luana Piovani as the jaw-dropping (like herself) Marinęs or Pedro Cardoso as the funny Cardoso.

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    Jorge Furtado made what any filmmaker aspires, or at least should! Something unique. Actually sent something new to the world. A smart, touching film, always unpretensious, with some interesting and unpredictable twists and one of those perfect endings that, like I said, brings a smile to even the most heartless' face...
  • January 25, 2009
    A lighthearted, charming, very Brazilian and thoroughly entertaining little gem.
  • July 18, 2009
    Very funny! Great script and good actors. Muito divertido! Ótimo roteiro e bons atores.
  • July 14, 2009
    Adoro esse filme. Adoro a historia, o elenco, o desenrolar do romance, o planejamento de tudo, o final. AHH *-*
  • April 12, 2009
    Es una curiosidad. Pocas veces se puede encontrar un filme cargada de tantos recursos audiovisuales para narrar una historia. Y lo mejor del caso es que aquellos recursos no sobran ni hacen falta, son necesarios y bastante precisos. Las actuaciones son buenas. Y la presencia en p...( read more)antalla de esas dos bellezas brasileras es algo maravilloso.
  • January 18, 2009
    I really liked this one. Jorge Furtado keeps getting better. And the acting was awsome, even Lazaro Ramos, one of my least favorite actors. Leandra Leal is so cute playing the shy girl next door, Silvia. Well, despite the fact that Luana Piovani is playing herself, she was really...( read more) funny as Marinęs. Pedro Cardoso looks great as the patetic seller who pretends to be rich to sleep with Marinęs.
    A really original story told by the talented eye of Jorge Furtado.
  • July 17, 2008
    adorable! i really loved this movie!
    "start, stop!"
  • July 15, 2008
    Released the same year as City of God (so never gained the attention it deserved), this is now my best Brazilian movie. Romantic, funny, optimistic and cruel at times, with a very successful casting (how cute is Leandra Leal as Sílvia?). It was a bit longer than it should, maybe....( read more) Anyway, good job, nice film.
  • June 10, 2008
    I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.

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June 24, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Even after it loses its way, the movie suggests a world where anything can happen and no one -- certainly not the girl of one's dreams -- is quite who he or she seems to be. full review

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