Veronica (Hermila Guedes) has just finished med school in Recife and is facing the gap between the theory of books and the harsh reality of Brazil's public health system: enormous lines, unhelpful colleagues, and disgruntled patients who refuse medical protocol and sometimes even spit in her face. She refers to herself in the third person, as "patient Veronica," and exerts self-pity for feeling alienated in spite of having it all on paper. When she's not being a doctor, or a ... (Full plot summary below)
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Veronica (Hermila Guedes) has just finished med school in Recife and is facing the gap between the theory of books and the harsh reality of Brazil's public health system: enormous lines, unhelpful colleagues, and disgruntled patients who refuse medical protocol and sometimes even spit in her face. She refers to herself in the third person, as "patient Veronica," and exerts self-pity for feeling alienated in spite of having it all on paper. When she's not being a doctor, or a patient of her own self in her journals, she's hanging out with her ailing father, having lukewarm sex with her boyfriend, or daydreaming about beach orgies.
Leave your thoughts about Once Upon a Time Veronica.
| Chicago ReaderDrew HuntShot in the same urban slum as Kleber Filho's Neighboring Sounds, this relentlessly bleak character study offers a disheartening glimpse of contemporary Brazilian life. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThoughtful as well as sensual, particular yet universal, it is the kind of expertly made examination of the human condition we can never have too many of. |
| Spectrum CulturePat PaduaIt's neither entertaining as sexploitation nor successful as art. |
| User ReviewScott RGood actors and an okay story. I didn't really like the voiceover.. Not as good as Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures! |
| User ReviewCarlos MAnchored by Hermila Guedes's committed performance, this is an interesting and nuanced portrait of discontent, anhedonia and the unbearable weight of apathy in a decadent Brazilian city, even if it becomes repetitious after a while and doesn't really seem to go anywhere in the end. |
| User ReviewWS WA woman's emotional journey. Not a very interesting one however. |
| User ReviewOmar LDull, boring, with nothing new to offer in any way. What a waste of time. |
| User ReviewPeter Ctentativa frustrante de um drama existencial... so salva atuaçao de Hermila Guedes |
