SummaryThe third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps ... Read More
Directed By:Vicente Amorim, Guillermo Arriaga, Stephan Elliott, Nadine Labaki
Written By:Andrucha Waddington, Mauricio Zacharias, Paolo Sorrentino, Antonio Prata
Rio, I Love You
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26
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11 Reviews
11 Reviews
Apr 14, 2016
42
Rio offers the uncomfortable spectacle of 10 different filmmakers mostly failing to produce a sense of place that can be sustained over 10 minutes, much less multiple senses of place that can be stitched into an interesting patchwork.
Apr 15, 2016
38
Rio, I Love You feels like little more than an extended tourism promotion video.
May 5, 2016
30
Strangely, almost everyone must have been in the middle of some weird creative dry spell. Some stories are pretentious, some are annoyingly whimsical and some are just out-and-out obnoxious.
Apr 14, 2016
30
Even more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love" franchise might leave viewers wondering whether these needed to be set in Rio de Janeiro at all.
Apr 27, 2016
25
Some of these shorts are worth the ten or so minutes they take, but none of them justify wasting time on Rio, I Love You.
Apr 9, 2016
12
The hygienization of Rio into what at times looks like a soulless Southern California town is so scandalous it feels like a spoof of the Cities of Love series.
Production Company:
- Conspiração Filmes
- Empyrean Pictures
- Bossa Nova Films
- Americas Film Conservancy
- Ever So Close
- Riofilme
Release Date:Apr 15, 2016
Duration:1 h 50 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Love happens everywhere. Some love stories only happen in Rio.
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 2 Nominations
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 1 Nomination
