This weekend, everyone in the Lansing area has a chance to see worldwide award-winner and genuinely good movie Me You Them, a great story detailing the story about a woman and her three husbands. The concept is original, the movie is extremely well-made, and it is everything the bulk of popular American cinema is not - challenging, engaging and interesting.
Darlene (played to restrained perfection by Regina Casé) begins the film by leaving her native home in Brazil, pregnant with her first son. The father is nowhere to be found, and the pregnancy is a source of shame for her family.
She returns three years later with her growing boy in the hopes of finding security with her family. Her neighbor Osias (Lima Duarte) quickly offers her a marriage of convenience. He has a nice home by himself, an improvement over her crowded family, and a steady pension to provide security.
What Darlene finds is that Osias is lazy and commands her to work and slave over the house while he listens to his radio from the comfort of his hammock.
At first she tries to escape, stopping only to leave her first son with his father, who works in the fields nearby. But Osias stops her, not wanting to lose his private maid. So she returns to the house, more depressed than ever.
Darlene escapes the sadness of this situation in the arms of not just one, but two men - Zezinho and Ciro (played by St