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A woman who is eight months pregnant and abandoned by her lover, a colonel in the military police, owns a forgotten bar in the vast Brazilian backlands. Then a stranger on the run from the police comes to town and begins to fix up her bar and lighten her spirits. For more on Brazil Week see www.utexas.edu/cola/llilas.
This article appears in March 8 • 2002.
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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years. More by Marjorie Baumgarten
