Second viewing; first viewed between 1983 and 1986.
An impoverished aristocrat falls in love with a workig-class girl. His family arranges for him a more lucrative association.
Subtlety is not this filmmaker's forte. A lot of shots are repeated a number of times, inducing a somewhat hypnotic effect on the viewer. There is much talk of evil producers who wouldn't give the director free rein (and a blank check), but the fact is that by casting himself, a middle-aged and not so handsome man, as the romantic lead, he did more harm to his film than any producer could. All that being said, the film is not bad. It has striking imagery, and some stimulating moral realism (try not to laugh at the cruel joke the protagonist makes about the limping woman). Maybe it's the effect of the cold I'm with, but I found the plot to be anagrammatically related to Machado de Assis' Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (also published as Epitaph of a Small Winner).
Rating: 62 (unchanged)
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