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...DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS...
Here's what happens. Dona Flor (Sonia Braga) is a lovely and virtuous young widow who marries a dull fellow, the local pharmacist (Mauro Mendonca). To her pretty confusion, the ghost of her randy first husband Vadinho (Jose Wilker) returns to torment her. He was a cad, a drunk and a gambler, who dropped dead from too much carnival carousing, and his only redeeming quality was that he was good at lovemaking. Death has not reformed him, and in his scapegrace way he tries to get her into bed. She is tempted, but refuses, saying that it would...
...driven by greed and ambition, but we are given no hint of where that greed springs from. The characters barely interact; we see them only as figures moving in a dream. We never learn why Aguirre has brought his 15-year-old daughter on his fatal voyage, or why Dona Inez insisted on accompanying her husband. We never learn why the other men in the band follow Aguirre--in the end, it is clear that their fear of him drives them, but why do they support his initial rebellion? The characters are hardly developed beyond their initial introduction. Like...
...they say." Usually the women flatten the meal in a simple round pressing "machine." Little girls as young as four are accomplished tortilla makers. But the older women remember the day--about twenty years ago--when there were no "machines," and can still do it by hand. Dona Lucia makes tortillas every three days, but younger women with growing families often make them every morning. "And how do you like being here with us, Senorita...
...swallow their grins nervously. Don Imanuel walks up beside you. "Senorita, you should marry. Enjoy life before you die. For we all have to die sometime, you know." In the town, the brothers are dedicating a song over the loud-speaker to the mother of the dead child: "For Dona Rufina, in her grief...