Word: martim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bahia revolves--more or less--around the tale of two lovers. Otelia, a beautiful young girl (Mira Fonesca), comes to Bahia, a spectacularly beautiful area on the Brazilian coast, to work in a brothel. There she meets Martim (Antonio Pitanga), a handsome young member of Bahia's cheerfully disreputable fringe element. By the end of the movie, her simple adulation--she is young enough to clutch a rag doll to her--has won him over from the wiles of more sophisticated women. And so the two are married, surrounded by their friends...
THIS IS A COMEDY, with a happy ending snatched out of the fire at the last moment. Just as the young, pure Otelia is about to die for love of Martim, he returns for the wedding, and they appear to live happily ever after. It may well be that such completely happy endings, unmarred by worldly considerations, are possible only in mythical worlds...
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