Movie
Brandos Costumes
1975 · 75 min
A quiet, observant film that blends domestic routine with political undercurrents, demanding patience but rewarding with historical resonance.
- Directed by
- Alberto Seixas Santos
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Luís Santos, Dalila Rocha, Isabel de Castro
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, satirical, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Family, politics, class, identity
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Alberto Seixas Santos
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Luís Santos, Dalila Rocha, Isabel de Castro
