Romeu & Romeu
Mistura de Artes (2016)
TV Series  /  Drama, Queer Themes/Interest, Romance, Series
Not In Collection
#1190
7*
Seen ItYes
(10/24/2017 Dekkoo)
IMDB   7.8
Brazil / Portuguese
VoD 
João Mesquita Ramon Monteiro
Arthur Chermont Rômulo Campelo
João Tessari Carlos Monteiro (father)
Lilian Menezes Paula Monteiro (mother)
João Pereira Julio Campelo (father)
Leide Dias Valéria Campelo (mother)
Fábio De Souza Gomes Thales Campelo
Matheus Spadari Samuel Monteiro
Luan Carvalho Benjamin Monteiro
Barbara Cury Suely
Bruno Santos George Campelo
Paolla Sayuri Mayara
Gustavo Braunstein Maurício
Bárbara Aranega Luana
Gabriel Rufatto Patrick
Fefe Houston Chorus
Amanda Collen Chorus
Mina de Lyon Chorus
Additional Actors
Director/Choreographer
Arthur Chermont
Faell Vasconcelos


Romeu e Romeu is a reimagination of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The Monteiro and Campelo families live in the shadow of a crime committed in the past. But when chance puts two gay family members, Ramon Monteiro and Rômulo Campelo, face to face, hatred turns into an unlikely love that can hurt parents, siblings, friends, and even themselves.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes    10/20/2016  @ Dekkoo   21 mins    7/21/2016  1. 
The Monteiro and Campelo families live in the shadow of a crime committed in the past. Their rivalry, already known throughout the city of South Verona, remains constant due to the frequent fights between the families. But when chance puts Ramon Monteiro and Rômulo Campelo face to face, hatred turns into an unlikely love that can hurt parents, siblings, friends, and even themselves.
    Seen it: Yes    10/20/2016  23 mins    8/2/2016  2. 
Ramon and Romulo spend the night together at the ball and find a strange attraction between them. The internal tensions of each family begin to appear when the youngsters reveal their dreams.
    Seen it: Yes    10/20/2016  22 mins    8/16/2016  3. 
Ramon and Romulo spend the night together at the ball and find a strange attraction between them. The internal tensions of each family begin to appear when the youngsters reveal their dreams.
    Seen it: Yes    10/23/2017  24 mins    8/30/2016  4. 
Ramon reveals the secret between both families to Rômulo, and the two end up fighting. Tensions between families grow, and Ramon has to make a difficult decision that can change his life forever.
    Seen it: Yes    9/13/2017  21 mins    9/21/2016  5. 
Rômulo and Ramon finally decides to live their love. However, with the truth out, Ramon decides to stop hiding himself and tell the truth to those he trusts.
    Seen it: Yes    10/23/2017  22 mins    9/27/2016  6. 
The protagonists find comfort from some family and friends, but a romantic dinner between Ramon and Rômulo ends tragically when the wrong people discover their romance.
    Seen it: Yes    10/23/2017  24 mins    9/27/2016  7. 
A month after the tragedy, Romulo decides to tell his family that his boyfriend is one of the Monteiro's guys.
    Seen it: Yes    10/23/2017  26 mins    9/27/2016  8. 
Ramon and Romulo travel to their gay uncle's house. Romulo doesn't understand how Ramon might want to take care of him and his illness.
    Seen it: Yes    10/23/2017  26 mins    9/27/2016  9. 
Romulo and Ramon reveal the truth about the family to their uncle. Ramon's father discovers the true reason behind the trip and decides to go get Ramon back.
    Seen it: Yes    10/23/2017  46 mins    9/27/2016  10. 
The boys go back to Romulo's house. When Ramon tries to solve the situation with his father, everything goes wrong and he runs away. The two families stand together to search for him.
Edition Details
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Tags coming of age
Links ‡ Official site
References
Streaming, VoD Dekkoo
IMDb Voters <500

Notes
The plot of Romeu & Romeu pretty much follows the spirit of the original·
As in Shakespeare's play, the Chorus plays an important role in Romeu & Romeu - as a prologue to the film and introducing the episodes· As far as I can determine, the lines of the Chorus are based directly on Shakespeare's· Together with a flashback prolog, they set the scene for what comes next· Unfortunately, this at first was not clear to me, and only when I revisited the film, did I get it·
The quality of the Roku/Dekkoo stream was poor in spots, almost as if it was a pirated version· In some scenes, the video was faded and out of focus, and the audio had extended segments of poor fidelity· I am relatively new to Dekkoo, but I have not experienced problems before· I also spot-checked streaming to my PC; I did not see these issues·
Despite apparent mechanical difficulties, this is a fine film series,