Mild Manners
(Brandos Costumes)
Screening on Film
Directed by Alberto Seixas Santos.
With Luís Santos, Dalila Rocha, Isabel de Castro.
Portugal, 1974, 35mm, color, 72 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
Print source: Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema
With Luís Santos, Dalila Rocha, Isabel de Castro.
Portugal, 1974, 35mm, color, 72 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
Print source: Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema
A darkly satiric and starkly stylized portrait of the Portuguese bourgeoisie, Brandos Costumes intercuts newsreel footage of Salazar with Brechtian scenes of the middle-class everyday that reveal the tensions and schisms between different generations and classes. A formally riveting work of counter-cinema, Brandos Costumes offers a challenge to any notion that life can or should remain the same after the end of the dictatorship.
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