A French-Brazilian drama and documentary film that mixes fiction and non-fiction, telling the story of two ballerinas narrating poems by Simone de Beauvoir, "actresses recite Beauvoir, but the tone gives the impression that they are discussing their lives, which is close to a documentary record." The slow pace, and the synesthesia and metalanguage of art staging art, almost tiring, yet poetic, lyrical and profound, I felt the speeches as mine about my mother, so intimate, it hurt...
When an 80-year-old intellectual is confronted with issues of old age and death, she sees herself 30 years earlier facing the death of her mother. In a poetic way, "In Three Acts" contrasts contemporary dance, through an 85-year-old ballerina and a young ballerina in her prime.
