Brandos Costumes
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Music director Jorge Peixinho Country Portugal | 6.8/10 Genre Drama Duration Language Portuguese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 18th, 1975 Writer Nuno Judice, Luiza Neto Jorge (dialogue), Luiza Neto Jorge (screenplay), Alberto Seixas Santos Initial release September 18, 1975 (Portugal) Cast Luís Santos (Father), Dalila Rocha (Mother), Isabel de Castro (Older Daughter), Sofia de Carvalho (Younger Daughter), Cremilda Gil (Maid), Constança Navarro (Grandmother)Screenplay Alberto Seixas Santos, Nuno Judice, Luiza Neto Jorge Similar movies Sostiene Pereira (1995) |
Brandos costumes novo cinema portugu s
Brandos Costumes (1974) is a Portuguese film directed by Alberto Seixas Santos which was a part of the Novo Cinema movement – influenced by the cinematographic neo-realism and specially by the Nouvelle Vague. It was released in 1975, when the political regime portrayed in the film (the Estado Novo) had already been destroyed.
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- Brandos costumes de alberto seixas santos 1975
- Overview
- Synopsis
- Historical context
- Cast
- Crew
- References

The film was released in Cinema Londres, in Lisbon, on September 18, 1975.
Brandos costumes de alberto seixas santos 1975
Overview
Synopsis
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.
Historical context
As a rupturing film, Brandos Costumes is less identifiable by the presence of avant gard aesthetics or an agile plot with a daring structure - not like Belarmino, by Fernando Lopes or O Cerco, by António da Cunha Telles - than by its ideological left-wing posture, taking a portrait of the social classes, and by its social and political sense of critic.
Some characteristics of the new generation films, revolted with the state of things and motivated to denounce the social injustices, are clearly present in Brandos Costumes. The theatrical tone of the representation of this work let it be integrated in the tradition that Manoel de Oliveira (O Passado e o Presente - 1971) explores.
Cast
Crew
References
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