Lance Maior (1968)

I have reviewed this film in July, 2007, which is the date of my first viewing.

You can go to the link of that blog entry, or just read it below:

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Synopsis: Mário is a young law student who works at a bank. He starts a relationship with a humble yet attractive shopgirl. He then starts a concomitant relationship with a rich girl.

Appraisal: Urban drama whose grim candor in character depiction and economic narrative style make for an interesting portrait of how the Brazilian upper and lower middle classes of the late sixties behaved and interacted. Although it abides by a realistic worldview, it has a certain theatricality to its dialogue and mise-en-scene that betrays some roughness in the overall execution; in spite of that, it is a worthy film, probably one of its director's better ones.
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I have little to add, except that the aforementioned "theatricality" was possibly a misperception of mine, and that I found the dialog hard to decipher in several instances. I also note that I may have finally understood the meaning of the film's title, something like "Higher Bid" or "Highest Bid". Films which have thematic or plot points in common with this one are A Place in the Sun (or An American Tragedy) and Les bonnes femmes.

Rating: 60 (up from 57)