O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (1970)

In the 1920s, a five-year-old boy from a poor family suffers domestic violence from his father and his sister. He befriends a middle aged man from his neighborhood.

Poorly made literary adaptation. The source novel suffers from suffocating sentimentality, which is a bit attenuated on the screen. While that is not exactly unfortunate, it also makes more evident the banality of much of the narrative. For justice's sake, the film has some virtues: the main actors don't do a bad job, and as a portrait of a specific era in Brazil it is not completely worthless.

Rating: 31