Amor Maldito

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Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist. The first film ever directed by an African-Brazilian woman is a tale of doomed love told with emotional sweep and a fatalistic overtone. Adélia Sampaio had a difficult time releasing her film, but the result of her supreme effort is one of the rare cinematic testaments of an entire southern hemisphere.