Second viewing; first viewed on some indeterminate date before January 1987.
English title: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
Based on the novel by Jorge Amado (1st ed., 1966), which has some plot elements borrowed from or simply coincidental with the 1941 play Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward.
A young widow remarries but her new, methodic, husband can't ease her lust the way her late one, a gambler and a womanizer, did.
An allegory of Brazil, a land which, as the theme-song succinctly puts it, "can't be governed, now or ever". The actual comedy is precisely conceived in the typical Brazilianate style, which does not allow for high flights of sophistication but gets the message through. As the previously reviewed here O Homem dos Papagaios, fiscal irresponsibility plays an important part in the plot. Here, the twist consists in making the suffering wife the dramatic center, thus deepening the analysis carried out in that movie.
Rating: 58 (up from 57)
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