Brandos Costumes (1975)
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
- Date of release
- 1975-09-18
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alberto Seixas Santos
Casting
- Luís Santos — Father
- Dalila Rocha — Mother
- Isabel de Castro — Older Daughter
- Sofia de Carvalho — Younger Daughter
- Cremilda Gil — Maid
- Constança Navarro — Grandmother
Interesting facts
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 neo-realism and specially by the Nouvelle Vague. It was released in 1975, when the political regime portrayed in the film had already been destroyed.
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