Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
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Actor: Jose Wilker Sonia BragaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Portuguese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-12-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: New Yorker
Movie Reviews of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Movie Review: Brazilian heartburn
Summary: 5 Stars
I always thought Nora Epron stole the idea of incorporating recipes into the story's narrative for her novel [ASIN:0679767959 Heartburn]] from Jorge Amado's sly 1977 book about a virtuous but sensual Bahia cooking school teacher hopelessly besotted with her philandering, gambling husband. Here it is beautifully translated to screen with our heroine, Dona Flor, portrayed by the beautiful Sonia Braga and set in Brazil in 1943 complete with period costumes, beautiful food and period music.
The story lesiurely unfolds as the viewer comes to understand why it is Dona Flor loves her sexy Vadinho and puts up with his abuse. After he drops dead during a Carnival samba dressed in drag and wearing a large fake male organ, Dona Flor is inconsolable. Celibate and desperately missing sex, she finally remarries. This time her choice (to her mother's delight) is a solid middle-class pharmacist, a good man, loving husband and bassoon player. However, on her honeymoon, Dona Flor discovers to her dismay that something is missing in the bedroom. Act 3 of our story takes a mystical bent with the undead Vadinho suddenly appearing naked in her bedroom and only Flor can see him. Death has not changed Vadinho, he still goes around to his old haunts, helps out his gambling friends and favorite prostitutes, all the while trying to make it with his wife who still retains her sexual longings.
The movie diverges from the book at the ending and although both work for Dona Flor whom we come to love, I prefer the book ending which resolves the dilemma by demonstrating Flor's emotional growth and good character. However, find the movie if you can and/or read the book, it is a funny tale with great recipes. Now if I only had a plate of those crabs with dente oil and onions.
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbandsby Jorge Amado
Vintage; Published: 2006-09-12; Paperback; Book
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