Jamie passion and passionfruit!

Brazilian pap for export and for internal consumptions by the masses.  The main characters are called Romeu and Julieta, the warring families belong to two different rival football teams and happen to be their number one fans and so it goes – a comedy of lies and deceit, blind faith and ignorance with all the cliches in the book.  Bruno Barreto is the director and has had both eyes firmly on the box office with this one.  It has nice photography and music, acceptable acting and a tropical feel but it just comes across as false.  It may be mildly interesting to witness the football tribes in action but Barreto doesn’t say or do anything much with it.