Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Dois Córregos (1999)

English title: Two Streams.

Synopsis: A woman visits a country house which belonged to her father, and is overcome by the memories of an earlier occasion when she was a teenager and was there with a friend and they met her uncle who was a political activist against the military dictatorship and was using the house as a hideaway.

Appraisal: It is sad that the film adopts a hagiographic approach towards the Hermes character; it is also sad that it seldom transcends the banality of its situations. The net result is a watchable yet severely flawed film.

Rating: 35

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