A cuckold's spiral in 91 minutes? Brazilian cinema said hold my caipirinha.
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' "Dom Casmurro". Bento marries an actress, and soon afterwards she gets pregnant. Then, he begins to suspect the child isn't his, but his best friend's.
Acting
Marcos Palmeira's suffocating, whisper-scream Bento.
Cinematography
Rio as humid, claustrophobic dreamscape.
Writing
Machado's ambiguity weaponized for screen.
Director
Moacyr Góes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Machado de Assis wrote the original in 1899; this adaptation transplants his psychological ambiguity to contemporary Rio's class tensions.
Director Moacyr Góes cast his own son Leon as the theatre director—a meta wink at patriarchal control.
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