Catalog Num:
SP-F010-1988
Title:
The Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier
Program:
Romance Languages
"Set on a panoramic Brazilian beach, this film confronts the sexual and social tensions between classes in the romantic story of a wealthy aristocrat`s obsessive desire. Refused nothing throughout his life, he spies the alluring figure of Fulvia, a beautiful but married woman who becomes the object of his unrelenting passion. His lust is finally satisfied and he paints on her belly a declaration of love which threatens a tragic consequence when she undresses in front of her husband." Notes: Part of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez collection, based on the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera". Director: RuyGuerra. Actors: Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana, Tonia Carrero, Dina Sfat, Chico Diaz" . Color. Subtitled.