Saturday, March 26, 2011

As Safadas (1982)

Tale of three stories. ‘Rainha do Fliper’ (Pinball’s Queen) In the outskirts of São Paulo, Reginéia is the pinball’s queen, exploited by her pimp Giba. Out of the blue, her former boyfriend Tenório (a.k.a. Tezinho) comes to the arcade place seeking out Reginéia. She gets close to Tenório and has an argument with the jealous Giba. But Reginéia soon finds how insecure and mediocre Tenório is. ‘Uma Aula de Sanfona’ (One Class of Accordion) Bank clerk Nanci and her friend Cristina have come from Ribeirão Preto and share an apartment in São Paulo. Nanci has an argument with her lover Valdemar, and goes to her room blaming her upset on the accordian lessons that her neighbor, Durval Pereira, is giving on the floor above. When their electric shower stops working Cristina asks Durval if he can fix it. Meanwhile, Valdemar comes to the apartment and Nanci decides to use her neighbor to make her boyfriend jealous…

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