Guerra Conjugal (1975) aka Conjugal warfare.avi

"Guerra Conjugal" is a Brazilian film, set in the pastel and languid town of Curitiba, that sees in the relations between men and women the virulence of a poisoned eclair. It is being shown as part of the Museum of Modern Art's New Directors series.

Three stories intercut with one another. The first is about a middleaged lawyer who seduces everyone in sight. Finally, in horror and helplessness, he is seduced by an old schoolmate. Don Juan as the repressed homosexual.

The second is about a young man who finds his satisfaction in progressively older women. The last is a horrendous crone of at least 80. Don Juan as the mother-fixated infant.

If the first two episodes dispose of eroticism, the third lays out marital love. An aged couple quarrel more and more violently. He accuses her of thinking of other men; she tells him he disgusts her. Dying, he asks his son to see to it that the wife doesn't kiss his dead face. He dies; she grows miraculously younger.