The Other Side Of The Street

CENTRAL STATION cowriter Marcos Bernstein's directing debut is an arthritic REAR WINDOW-style thriller that's neither very Hitchcockian nor particularly thrilling. Cantankerous Regina (CENTRAL STATION's Fernanda Montenegro) is one elderly divorcée who has no intention of growing old quietly. Thumbing her nose at the old folks who waste their days playing dominos in Rio de Janeiro's leafy parks, Regina insists on doing something useful with her time and takes full advantage of a police program that recruits snoopy senior citizens to report suspicious behavior in their neighborhood. Regina, who's convinced that the police are too incompetent and the citizenry too apath...