English title: How Are You? Well?
An omnibus film in eight episodes. Most of them feature the same two actors, and all of them feature at least one of them; in each of them, they come in a different make-up and costume, to suit the specific character of that episode. A summary of the episodes is given (in Portuguese) in the TV Brasil site, which showed the movie last August. I translate it below, with [...] for skipped text:
"In the first episode, Once Flamengo [...] two fanatical rooters for Flamengo get drunk after that team's defeat. In Woman in Sight [...] a voyeur spies, with binoculars, his neighbor's nudity. In Ten Years of Marriage [...] a lower-class suburb dweller kills his wife because of a chicken. In The Holy Girl of Encantado [...] a greedy father earns money out of his daughter's pretense to see Our Lady. In The Apartment [...] two sweethearts desperately try to satisfy their sexual urges. in The Little Canaries of N.S. das Dores [...] a priest attempts to collect contributions from his parishioners. In I Have to Win [...] a married man makes a living performing as a cross-dresser in a nightclub. Lastly, in The Great Day [...] a lower-class suburb dweller gets ready to sing as a contestant on the Chacrinha TV show."
Reasonably entertaining comical portrayal of lower-class Rio de Janeiro in the late sixties. The screenplay is collectively signed. The duo of leading actors were very popular in a TV show a few years after this film; I do not know whether they had paired earlier. The film's copy they showed in TV is in considerably bad shape.
Rating: 50
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