We are left with the conclusion that women need to be assertive about what they want and shouldn't settle for anything less. Written in 1966, this novel by one of Brazil's most celebrated authors, Jorge Amado, shows his empathy with a woman's lot in life by examining the imbalance between the sexes. She struggles with her conscience as Vadinho makes clear he wants her to cheat on Teodoro. Teodoro is well-meaning but essentially dull and no match for the shy but passionate Flor.įlor ambles along in her comfortable but tedious existence but her life is turned upside down when the gods conjure up the one thing she craves: her dead husband. At the prompting of her mother Rozkilda (Montserrat Gili, who is also executive producer), she remarries a tall, dark and balding local doctor Teodoro (James G Bellorini). Mark O'Thomas's adaptation of Jorge Amado's novel tells the story of the young Dona Flor (played by Mariana Whitehouse) whose philandering first husband Vadinho (Luciano Gatti) dies of a heart attack, leaving her a heartbroken widow. You can have both, but only if one of them is dead. Literature presents us women with an infernal dilemma: should we go for a sensible, well-off man with no sex appeal or a red-hot Casanova who has a sideline as a layabout philanderer? (For some reason men are usually consigned to one category or the other, with little scope for manoeuvre).ĭona Flor and her Two Husbands presents a novel solution.
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