Worldwide English Title: Adultery Brazilian Style
Film in three segments. (1) O Telhado ("The Roof") is about a factory worker who suspects his wife is cheating on him; (2) A Assinatura ("The Signature") shows a day in the life of a couple in an open marriage; (3) A Receita ("The Recipe") has a a womanizer husband and his frustrated wife who has a younger admirer.
To be honest, this film was surprisingly good at parts, and overall quite entertaining. The first episode featuring a working class couple is very good, a small masterpiece or nearly. The factory environment was very well captured in images, and the home life of the protagonist was equally well portrayed. And the leading performance was excellent. The other two episodes, while somewhat inferior, are not without merit. Number two is a curious take on upper class people which, while perhaps not totally convincing, reflected the spirit of the times and was well filmed. The last segment depicts a middle class couple and is possibly the one with the most appeal to audience tastes, showing more nudity and some vulgarity. It offers a glimpse into the later style of this director and into a whole new genre of which he would be one of the founders -- the pornochanchada; that being said, this is superior to those later films.
Rating: 51
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