Invisible Life (2019) – Filming Locations
Drama · Directed by Karim Aïnouz · Starring Gregório Duvivier, Carol Duarte
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
Where was Invisible Life filmed?
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro – Opening scenes establishing the vibrant beach culture and daily life of Rio in the 1950s. The iconic Copacabana district serves as the primary setting for the sisters' early life and represents the freedom and modernity of Rio that contrasts with their constrained domestic existence
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro – Street scenes and urban locations where characters navigate city life. The bustling downtown area captures the energy and social dynamics of 1950s Rio, providing backdrop for the sisters' encounters and the social pressures they face
- Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon – Post-separation scenes showing one sister's life in exile in Lisbon. The historic Alfama neighborhood serves as the European setting where one sister builds a hidden life in exile, representing geographic and emotional distance from Brazil
- Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon – Scenes depicting the separation and longing between the sisters across continents. The Tagus riverfront symbolizes the vast distance and impossible separation between the two sisters living on opposite sides of the Atlantic