The Woman of Everyone

+ intro by Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, Cinema Mentiré

A Mulher de Todos

A delirious anti-heroine tears through São Paulo, in a defining classic of Brazil’s Cinema Marginal.

  • Director

    Rogério Sganzerla

  • With

    Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia

  • Brazil 1969. 86min

  • Digital 4K

  • English subtitles

Ignez stuns as Ângela, a free-spirited woman who drifts through lovers and crimes in a delirious São Paulo shaped by consumer culture and repression. Made under the military dictatorship and the subject of censorship, Sganzerla’s film became a key work of Cinema Marginal – a radical, low-budget movement that rejected commercial cinema and political orthodoxy. It’s a provocative pop-art attack on respectability and narrative form.

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Contains homophobic language.