Name: Desabafo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 2015-10-01
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Fernando Alves Pinto, Inez Viegas

With another actor and smaller segments it could have worked better

There are nice elements in this film, which deals decently (but not greatly) with issues such as elitism, poverty and (very strongly in the two last segments) mysoginy. However, it looks more like theater than cinema, the actor Fernando Alves Pinto is very bad (it is amazing how we can understand only 50% of his lines) and the text is a little boring: it woukd work better as a short film, with three nuch smaller segments.

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