The IMDB plot summary ("Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends.") is almost right: "parents" should be replaced by "relatives".
The title of this Brazilian comedy has, perhaps involuntarily, a double meaning; the apparent one ("the perverted baroness") and a less obvious one ("the stray baroness") related to the premise of a child which got separated from her mother. Although this film was made to please general audiences of all ages, its display of moral wretchedness is somewhat disturbing. The emphasis on grotesque elements wouldn't be out of place in a movie by John Waters or Jack Hill, for example (except for the sex, that is absent here). Some of the verbal wit is heavily dated; take, for instance, the line (the accuracy of whose transcription is as good as the poor audio and my ear allow): "Inteligente é o cor de abóbora, que tem o Pedro Álvares Cabral nas costas." ("The orange-colored is the intelligent one, because it's got Pedro Álvares Cabral on its back."). You would be clueless about its meaning, unless you knew that at that time there was a money bill in Brazil which was orange-colored and had the portrait of Cabral on it (come to think of it, even after knowing that I am still not sure about its meaning). Although it screams low-brow on every frame, there is a sense that there might be something more to this film than a superficial glance will show, a sort of anarchy in its conception (or lack thereof) that attenuates its obvious shortcomings.
Rating: 31
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