As Moças Daquela Hora (1973) User Reviews

Three stories and just one destiny !!!

[elo-equipamentos · 4/10 · 21 April 2019]

Keeping watching soft "pornochanchada" a Brazilian exotic genre, this turn I'd pick up a production with more seriously treatment, divided in three segments although linked all together, the first one is about a girl who get involved by a circus's acrobat, even having sex with his boyfriend, she decided run away with the lover, after has been rejected she went to the oldest profession, the second talks about a pretty young girl who get married with an old man, desired by his Boss who took away to take her, she ends up falling in love for a young guy, the jealous Boss rape her, so remains to joint to easy ladies nearby, the last one drifts to a humor oriented, about a virgin girl who get married with an mid age man which in honeymoon discovers that his wife is no longer a virgin as he had suppose to be, Monique Lafont, Nidia de Paula and a hundred of good actors appear in short appareances, however stays a matter to discuss, none of them should became to an easy life, the picture forget that everybody has a second chance, so this movie lead us to believe erroneously those girls are doomed forever, wrong approaching, today we can say it as politically incorrect!!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD-R / Rating: 4.5

A more complex movie than it seems at the 1st sight

[guisreis · 7/10 · 17 December 2020]

Not extraordinary, obviously, but surprisingly good. It is a pornochanchada, a film from a softcore sexploitation comedy genre from Brazilian cinema in the 70's and 80's. It is divided in three segments, besides the beginning and the enigmatic end, and only the first and third segments are really comedies, as the second one is a drama. Three women, three stories in different parts of Brazil, the same fate: becoming prostitute under the guidance of Pilar, whose death is announced in the very first scene. The stories are not excuses for showing nudity and sex, as in most pornochanchadas, but also a good portrayal of some Brazilian cultural traits and patriarchy. In the first story, with a few funny moments, a woman makes sex with her boyfriend, who feels guilty and wants to marry her, but she preferred to live with a circus trapeze artist. The two men are played by good actors Marco Nanini and Gracindo Jr, respectively, both in one of their earliest roles in cinema. In the second segment, the best of them, held in Bahia, a humble but attractive woman, played by stunning Tina Luisa, is seen more as a maid than as a wife by her husband, but two other men - his landowner boss and a wandering fruit juice seller - lust her overtly (no spoiler here, but the way tgis segment ends is quite interesting). In the third story, the black sheep of a catholic family in the town of Três Corações-MG marries a quite old-fashioned man, but he has a bad surprise (being his impression true or not) in the wedding night. If you want to watch a pornochanchada, this one is among the best.