DALILA (Ana Bustorff) and MARCOLINO (Vítor Norte) are a couple who have a goldsmith's shop in a little village at Alentejo. They have a kid and they seem to be a normal married couple. One day DALILA meets POMPEU (João Reis), and they both feel a sexual attraction. They start to see each other especially when she goes to Lisbon to do some medical exams. As they get involved, she starts hating her husband. But things get worse when she find out she has breast cancer and after do the surgery her husband (who was a bit rough sometimes, especially when he was jealous) brutally rape her, in the most violent scene of the movie
After that she just wants him dead
It's a dark and dramatic crime story about a woman that turns from the victim to the aggressor done in Portuguese standards. The plot is slow paced and dark. It has some really dark scenes, but very well shot, because they transmit to the viewer feelings like sorrow, despair, and even madness (!); the ones which I think the director wanted to pass to the viewer.
The acting is also good. I guess there aren't too many Portuguese films with a "Blond fatal", like Ana Bustorff does in this film, so I guess it worth also for its audacity in the Portuguese cinema's world, especially if we take in consideration the production's date of this movie, 1998.
It has strong sexual scenes and one particularly brutal, especially on the psychological side. It's really rude to watch a husband violate his own wife like that!
However I think it's a different and audacious Portuguese film so I will score it 7/10.
It's a dark and dramatic crime story about a woman that turns from the victim to the aggressor done in Portuguese standards. The plot is slow paced and dark. It has some really dark scenes, but very well shot, because they transmit to the viewer feelings like sorrow, despair, and even madness (!); the ones which I think the director wanted to pass to the viewer.
The acting is also good. I guess there aren't too many Portuguese films with a "Blond fatal", like Ana Bustorff does in this film, so I guess it worth also for its audacity in the Portuguese cinema's world, especially if we take in consideration the production's date of this movie, 1998.
It has strong sexual scenes and one particularly brutal, especially on the psychological side. It's really rude to watch a husband violate his own wife like that!
However I think it's a different and audacious Portuguese film so I will score it 7/10.
