A Noite das Taras II

(1) "Solo de Violino" ("Violin Solo")

In São Paulo, the bank clerk Rodrigo (Ênio Gonçalves) is an aspirant violinist with deep psychological problems and a serial-killer of prostitutes that lives with his unpleasant and dominating mother Débora (Wanda Cosmo). When Rodrigo was a child, he had witnessed the abusive and humiliating treatment of his mother to his father, who was a professional violinist that played in cheap bars. When Rodrigo meets his next door neighbor in a bus, she discloses that she is in love with his music and him. But Rodrigo has difficulties to control his killing impulses.

Directed by Ody Fraga, this melancholic psychological drama has good story, performances and cinematography but with a disappointing open conclusion. My vote is six.

(2) "A Guerra da Malvina" ("The Malvina War")

Four female thieves led by Malvina (Matilde Mastrangi) break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.

Directed by Cláudio Portiolli, this silly episode is only a vehicle to promote the narcissism of David Cardoso. The title is a joke with the Malvinas War between Argentina and United Kingdom. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "A Noite das Taras No. 2" ("The Night of the Perversions No. 2")

There are two different and independent movies put together as this feature-length softcore production. The first one, which has nothing related to a comedy, is a drama on mysoginy. A man who hates his weird mother (who he always say that is a whore), thinks he is the continiation of his dead father (a skilled but frustrated violin player), plays violin, and kills women he associates with his mother (generally, prostitutes with whom he makes sex before. Oh, his mother hates violins). He is a kind of Jack the ripper who plays violin instead of ripping and attacks in São Paulo in XX century instead of London in XIX. Acting is generally unconvincing, script is even less convincing, and the bad soundtrack seems to be taken from an 8-bit videogame. When he and his neighbor (who loves violin) fall in love for each other... what will happen? I would give it a 5.5. On the second story, I cannot help but say that it is much worse than the former, embarassing. A all-women gang enter a high-class house in order to rob its owner. Then, they find out that the house owner is a porn star. The outcome is predictable. Yes, it looks like a porn video script, but with worse sex scenes. There are many unfunny erotic gags too. Actresses are among the worst I have ever seen. I give it a 2.0. Average: 3.75...