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Yes and combining suitably drama and comedy. By the way of showing the rehearsals and exhibition of a Portuguese theatre revue the atmosphere of the fascist political regime of the dictator Salazar is shown in the well portrayed atmosphere of last century thirties. We can watch the censorship of all shows and the humans rights violations and the police brutality. All performers do an excellent job since they make us to love the good guys and hate the ugly ones. The only flaw is maybe a superficial characterization of some characters but that is not enough to lessen the good quality of this movie.

I'm not a film critic, but I love watching movies, and I really like to try to keep an eye on what the Portuguese cinema has to offer once in a while (myself being Portuguese as well). Maybe I'm just unlucky regarding the portuguese movies I get to watch, but I have to admit I'm usually not the biggest fan of those I see... Two blatant examples of that are "Capitão Falcão" and "Linhas de Sangue"... I hated both :) ...

But here the painting is different: I have the habit of giving each film a 1-to-5 score, which I keep on a notepad, and last tuesday (September 3rd), after the preview screening held at the UCI cinemas in Lisbon, I gave my first "5" ever (special reference here to "La Cage Dorée", also a "5", but only partially portuguese)... And how pleased was I to give that score :)...

I loved the beauty, the great spirit, the way it revisited the past, the sometimes blatant humour, as well as the other times very well camouflaged one, and I absolutely loved the so well printed emotion in such a genuine work...

CONGRATULATIONS!! PARABÉNS!! :)