« The newest part of Dona Flor place [few] need on Sonia Braga. Braga, popular Brazilian design, are however around the work. The movie enhanced their particular prominence rather, and she has feel some thing out of a Brazilian Brigitte Bardot, appearing in numerous says from strip down in many after that videos.

« Dona Flor and her Several Husbands was a huge success within the Brazil, outgrossing also such as for example competition just like the Mouth area (1975) or any other Us videos throughout the day, features turned-out popular with Western viewers also. No matter if its critical reception in america are mixed– the film is truly open to costs out-of sexism; past that, specific critics contended you to definitely Barreto spent a lot of time setting up the final menage a good trois, and you can too little time exploiting their comical possibilities– Dona Flor and her A few Husbands is the better understood in Brazilian framework. The film was, during the bottom, an event of your own leisure out of government censorship. If Barreto from time to time emphasizes the brand new erotic at the cost of the newest comic, Dona Flor and her A few Husbands however remains the very polished of Brazilian boudoir comedies of its day and age. (suite…)