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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
(Dona Flor e seus dois maridos)

B is for Braga
Screening on Film
Directed by Bruno Barreto.
With Sonia Braga, José Wilker, Mauro Mendonça.
Brazil, 1976, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Print source: HFA

A variation on Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, this unique sex comedy shattered Brazilian box-office records and proved enormously popular in its worldwide release. It tells the story of Doña Flor, a woman who decides to remarry a respectable but libidinally challenged pharmacist after her philandering husband drops dead at a carnival. When her first husband’s ghost visits her in bed, she has to make the decision of a lifetime: passion or security? Sonia Braga’s electrifying, sultry performance as the title character catapulted her to international stardom.

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