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The Desire (1975)

Directed by Walter Hugo Khouri

Overview

Widowed one year ago, Eleonora, a 33-year-old woman from Sao Paulo’s upper bourgeoisie, lives alone, unsuited to her husband’s absence, an intellectual frustrated and torn between the need for transcendence and a strong sexual compulsion. The life of the couple, although not happy, was intense. However, the presence of her a long-time friend Ana Maria, just arrived from Paris, a middle-class university student, is staying at his house. The two go to the site of Eleonora and she remembers her life with Marcelo and his death by drowning.

Length 99 minutes

Actors

Fernando Amaral | Selma Egrei | Lilian Lemmertz | Kate Hansen | Sérgio Hingst | Agar Amaral