Brandos Costumes

Brandos Costumes (1974) is a Portuguese film directed by Alberto Seixas Santos which was a part of the Novo Cinema movement – influenced by the cinematographic neo-realism and specially by the Nouvelle Vague. It was released in 1975, when the political regime portrayed in the film (the Estado Novo) had already been destroyed.[1]

Brandos Costumes
Directed byAlberto Seixas Santos
Written byAlberto Seixas Santos
Luísa Neto Jorge
Nuno Júdice
Produced byCenter of Portuguese Cinema
Tóbis Portuguesa
StarringLuís Santos
Dalila Rocha
Isabel de Castro
Sofia de Carvalho
Constança Navarro
Cremilde Gil
CinematographyAcácio de Almeida
Edited bySolveig Nordlund
Music byJorge Peixinho
Distributed byMarfilmes
Release date
September 18, 1975
Running time
72 minutes
CountryPortugal
LanguagePortuguese

The film was released in Cinema Londres, in Lisbon, on September 18, 1975.

Overview
  • Script: Alberto Seixas Santos, Luísa Neto Jorge, Nuno Júdice
  • Director: Alberto Seixas Santos
  • Production: Centro Português de Cinema (CPC) and Tóbis Portuguesa
  • Financed by: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
  • Shooting dates: March 1972, October 1973, finished in 1974
  • Archive footage: Cinemateca Nacional, Emissora Nacional
  • Film extracts: A Revolução de Maio, Chaimite
  • Format: 35mm
  • Genre: fiction (social drama)
  • Duration: 72’
  • Length: 1978 meters
  • Distributor: Marfilmes (currently), Filmes Castello Lopes (on release date)
  • Release date: Cinema Londres, in Lisbon, on September 18, 1975
  • International English Titles: Gentle Costume, Gentle Morals, Mild Manners

Synopsis

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.[2] 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.

Historical context

As a rupturing film, Brandos Costumes is less identifiable by the presence of avant-garde aesthetics or an agile plot with a daring structure - not like Belarmino, by Fernando Lopes or O Cerco, by António da Cunha Telles - than by its ideological left-wing posture, taking a portrait of the social classes, and by its social and political sense of critic.

Some characteristics of the new generation films, revolted with the state of things and motivated to denounce the social injustices, are clearly present in Brandos Costumes. The theatrical tone of the representation of this work let it be integrated in the tradition that Manoel de Oliveira (O Passado e o Presente - 1971) explores.

Cast
  • Luís Santos (father)
  • Dalila Rocha (mother)
  • Isabel de Castro (older daughter)
  • Sofia de Carvalho (younger daughter)
  • Constança Navarro (grandmother)
  • Cremilde Gil (servant-maid)

Crew

References
  1. de España, Rafael (2013). "Portugal". In Aitken, Ian (ed.). The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge. p. 737. ISBN 9780415596428.
  2. Luhr, William (1987). World Cinema Since 1945. Ungar. p. 496. ISBN 9780804430784.
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