A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
Festivals
Forum, Berlin Film Festival, New Directors/New Films Film Festival
Feature Film
Drama
75'
Colour
35 mm available in Betacam
Title
Gentle Morals, 1974 "Brandos Costumes"
Director
Alberto Seixas Santos
Production
Centro de Cinema Português (CPC)
Tobis Portuguesa
Cast
Luís Santos
Dalila Rocha
Isabel de Castro
Sofia de Carvalho