Brandos Costumes (1975)

Directed by

Alberto Seixas Santos

Genre

drama film

Country

Portugal

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is about a family living under the Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal. It shows their quiet daily lives and the ways the regime controls them. It was released just after that regime fell.

introspectiveslow-burnpolitically chargedmelancholicobservationalrestrainedsombervisually stark

What happens

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 (the Estado Novo) had already been destroyed. The film was released in Cinema Londres, in Lisbon, on September 18, 1975. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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