Adultério à Brasileira

This antology movie is certainly the best made by Pedro Carlos Rovai. The first segment, The roof, is is a drama of a working class man who is cheated by his wife when he is in the factory. The story is very simples, but cinematography, art direction and acting (particularly Sérgio Hingst in the leading role) are really well done. Poor Zé... The second segment, The signature, has an interesting contrast with the former. While the first portrayed the working class, this one portrays very rich people, but the issue of unfaithfulness is, offcourse, cross-class (and obviously not only amatter of cheating wives). The way the film explored more thoughts than dialogues was funny (and so was the yoga teacher, although he was completely unnecessary to the story. In the end, unfaithfulness was not the core of the segment, differently from the previous one.

The third and last segment, The recipe, portrays middle class. Interestingly, in all segments, although it is mentioned only in this one, the patriarchy is the norm, and only the husband has a job, and the woman stays at home (and is responsible for housework in the first and third segments; in the second there are obviously many employees to do it). The husband (Mário Benvenutti) wants his beautiful wife (played by Romenian actress Jacqueline Myrna) to say at home, and is a womanizer outside (all his colleagues in office have the same mood, but he is the worst). The scenes portraying his imagination are funny Well, perhaps his absence will not be felt as a problem by another man...