Brandos Costumes

Brandos Costumes 1974 is a Portuguese film directed by Alberto Seixas Santos which was a part of the Novo Cinema movement influenced by the cinematographic neorealism and specially by the Nouvelle Vague. It was released in 1975, when the political regime portrayed in the film the Estado Novo had already taken been destroyed.

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middleclass family in parallel with the fall of the Estado Novo, the 48year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the countrys collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.As a rupturing film, Brandos Costumes is less identifiable by the presence of avant gard aesthetics or an agile plot with a daring structure not like Belarmino, by Fernando Lopes or O Cerco, by Antnio da Cunha Telles than by its ideological leftwing posture, taking a portrait of the social classes, and by its social and political sense of critic. ........

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