For his first in a long series of wildly imaginative literary adaptations, dos Santos reinvented Nelson Rodrigues' novel about a pathological gangster with solid gold teeth and a voracious appetite for women and power. Embracing radically modernist narrative techniques, Golden Mouth offers a splintered, refractive portrait of brutal masculinity that returns repeatedly to the same moment from different vantages, each time revealing unexpected perspectives on the brutal yet strangely charming criminal. Lurid and disturbing, Golden Mouth delivers a savage satire of marriage and class pretensions, revealing a similar venality at the corroded heart of the sanctimonious bourgeoisie, the moneyed elite and the working class as they all mercilessly claw their way up and down the rickety and ruthlessly hierarchical Brazilian social ladder. -Harvard Film Archive
Credits
Golden Mouth Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Jece Valadão
He was 32, 76 years old when he died
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as Boca de Ouro |
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Daniel Filho
He was 25, now 86 years old
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as Leleco |
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Odete Lara
She was 34, 85 years old when she died
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as Dona Guigui |
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Maurício do Valle
He was 35, 66 years old when he died
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Wilson Grey
He was 39, 69 years old when he died
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as Dentista |
Golden Mouth Crew
