The Clone
2001
Original language: Portuguese
- soap
- drama
- sci-fi & fantasy
The story
Human cloning. The Islamic world. Two young people, two different cultures, two different beliefs. An impossible love story that not even time could erase. During a trip to Morocco, Lucas has a forbidden romance with Jade. He returns to Brazil after the death of his twin brother Diogo. A close family friend, scientist Albieri uses this situation to produce the first human clone using cells taken from Lucas. Twenty years later, Jade, Lucas and his clone form an odd love triangle.
What it’s like
Warm, saturated Brazilian daylight over Rio's beaches and sunlit apartments, then a shift into ochre walls, hennaed hands and blue-tiled courtyards in Morocco, with bazaars full of spice colour and the sound of oud and call-to-prayer. Soap-opera framing is central: plenty of close-ups on faces mid-emotion, slow push-ins at dramatic beats, and a sweeping orchestral or melodic score that swells whenever a glance lingers. Pacing is unhurried and episodic, with scenes often repeated, talked through and returned to, so it suits a daily-ritual habit or a long comfort binge more than sharp plotting. The tone is earnest romance and family melodrama, with sentimental sincerity, quiet heartache and gentle humour in the household scenes. Intensity is moderate: there are kidnapping threats, a death, shouting matches, forced-marriage pressure and some tense scenes of a crime plot, but no gore and little on-screen violence, and romance stays chaste and largely restrained. It suits viewers who enjoy long-form emotional drama about love across cultures, faith and fate, and who don't mind the conventions of a telenovela.
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