Ulisses has failed in his professional life, but leads a happy life with his wife Ângela and their two daughters. Until the day he is introduced to Bárbara, a very beautiful woman living in Rio de Janeiro. Ângela becomes her friend and gives her the dress Ulisses had given her. From then on, marital problems arise, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Bárbara.
Acting
Gabriela Duarte's Bárbara—dangerous, magnetic, never explains herself.
Costume
The dress itself: character, MacGuffin, and loaded symbol.
Director
Paulo Thiago
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Nelson Rodrigues' short story, the godfather of Brazilian theatrical melodrama where bourgeois respectability masks rot.
The dress functions as female currency in a patriarchal economy—Ângela gives away her own gift, literally delegating her erotic value.
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