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This film doesn't quite live up to its one-line pitch: a Brazilian romantic comedy about a peasant woman who shares a tiny village home with her three husbands. Hearing that, you might expect a Latin sex farce of Almodovarian proportions, but what you get is a fairly low-key, drab affair.
Set in an arid, poverty stricken backwater of northern Brazil, it comes as no surprise that the colours are limited to various shades of brown, while the characters have little more to do with their days than harvest crops, wash clothes in the muddy river, and listen to a tinny transistor radio while lazing in a hammock.
Three years after a heavily pregnant Darlene (Casé) is jilted at the altar, she returns to her home village with her young son and marries the cantankerous elder Osias (Duarte) for financial security. He gives her a roof over her head, but little else. She's soon sharing romantic moments with his equally aged cousin Zezinho, who, before long, moves in with them. Osias doesn't seem to mind, because Zezinho cooks better than Darlene.
When Ciro (Vasconcelos), a young stud Darlene meets at a dance, turns up at the field where she works, an invite to dinner turns into an offer of accommodation: she has found husband number three, and the father of child number four.
The men don't like having to share Darlene, but each is unwilling or unable to fulfil the roles of the others - Osias provides money, Zezinho provides friendship, and Ciro provides passion - the three things Darlene needs most.
Ultimately, the performances are charming and natural enough to draw you into this peculiar love quadrangle, driven not by salaciousness, but by necessity.
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