Love Strange Love

Love Strange Love

For them, everything was permited.

1982 · 123 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, History

A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.

Directed by Walter Hugo Khouri · Written by Walter Hugo Khouri

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