It is the path of life of a former model / actress, Teresa Gaivão and the people intersect with her along the way.
This film by Alberto Seixas Santos failed its purpose completely. If the idea was to show the route of a former model that lives a down period of her careers, actress of soap operas, and the result was disappointing. The choice of Sofia Aparicio to embody the role of Teresa Galvao was an unhappy one. Is simply not enough to have a life course almost parallel and have a nice face to obtain a credible character. Her facial expression are all levels, almost always the same, I doubt whether this was due to botox, or just pure bad choice of the director. The last option seemed the most plausible, Sofia Aparicio has not the caliber, nor the talent necessary to build a character so complex as is tend it to be from what I gather from the script, a non-actress trapped in existential crossroad, confronted by the freshness of young talent at the professional level on one hand and on the other, the void that is her personal life. The background story, I would say secondary to the main plot, the studio recordings of the soap opera is much more interesting in terms of action and would have deserved a higher profile. The frugals performances of Rita Durao, Isabel Ruth and Americo Silva greatly contribute to keep our little interest in this feature film. The script of the film is its major weakness, the characters require a greater depth and the rest seems lost. There's even a scene that I want to highlight due to the lack of taste and appropriateness, the nakedness of the three young women. A futile exercise that I never get tired of stressing, since the Portuguese cinema seems to have a constant obsession to show the actresses bobbies, in this particular case the scene was not justified, the text fails on several fronts and this is one of them and once again I reinforce my opinion I am not against nudity in a film if there is a cohesion aesthetically and in terms of content. The only regret I have towards this "And time goes by," is that the title is the only thing appropriate for a story we want to pass by very quickly. Good movie!
