"In three acts" is inserted in the frame of a film between fiction and non-fiction, a proposal of poetic essay that has been exploding in the world cinema. The increasingly tenuous limit between fiction and documentary has allowed one to work without preconceived frames.
The film deals with finitude and continuity, old age and youth working with the body, through contemporary dance and with the word, in texts by Simone de Beauvoir.
The dance, choreographed by João Saldanha, is at the same time a tribute to Angel Vianna, an icon of contemporary Brazilian dance, who participated in the film at age 85.
Angel dances with Maria Alice Poppe, his former student, who is at the height of his vigor. To this dance performance, which makes a counterpoint without clichés between these two bodies, is added the texts of Simone de Beauvoir interpreted by Nathalia Timberg and Andrea Beltrão. These texts are freely inspired by interviews of the author, in the books "The oldness" and "A very sweet death", in which the writer wrote on the death of the mother.
Held in partnership with TSProductions, with whom Taiga has already co-produced "Quase Dois Irmãos", the film has the French support of Milena Poylo and Gilles Sacoud.