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Engraçadinha

1981 · 103 min

A brooding, talky drama of buried secrets and seduction, unfolding through confession and memory with a sour, tragic edge.

Directed by
Haroldo Marinho Barbosa
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Lucélia Santos, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Nina de Pádua
Overview
After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.

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Directed by
Haroldo Marinho Barbosa
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Lucélia Santos, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Nina de Pádua
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • betrayal
  • sexuality
  • guilt
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
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Action1
Horror2
Humour4
Realism7
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Haroldo Marinho Barbosa
Written by
Haroldo Marinho Barbosa
Starring
Lucélia Santos, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Nina de Pádua, Wilson Grey, Carlos Gregório, Daniel Dantas, Cláudio Corrêa e Castro, Nelson Dantas
Cinematography
Antonio Penido
Runtime
103 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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