A major old classic of Brazilian cinema, considered as the very best ever by Brazilian Film Critics Association (Abraccine), this is a kind of expressionist silent movie, very experimental and non-linear, with almost no dialogue (I think that the very few original intertitles were those i the cemetery, spoken by Mário Peixoto's character imself). Three characters appear together and very bleak in a small boat, or separetly in their lives before that moment. We know by the newspaper one of the women, a seamstress, reads that the other was a convict and escaped with the help of the keeper. Additionally, we see the man in a graveyard and see a sign of who was his loss. While there are some nice innovative frames and some quite good transitions and overlaps, pace is too sluggish in my opinion, considerably boring. It is not an easy film to follow, including due its symbolic nature. Sometimes frenzy camera moves do not work either, despite cinematography being a positive trait most of the time.
