“O Que Será!” Bruno Barreto was 20 years old when he injected new life into Brazilian cinema and announced Sônia Braga to the world with this sensuous comedy-fantasy, based on the brilliant Jorge Amado’s 1966 novel. Braga stars as Flor, whose gambling, unfaithful husband Vadinho (José Wilker, Bye Bye Brazil) drops dead while dancing in the streets of Bahia during carnival. Eight years later, Flor gets the respectable husband she’s always yearned for in Dr. Teodoro Maduereira (Mauro Mendonça), but her neglected libido calls her first husband from the grave…. With the help of Murilo Salles’s brilliant camerawork, set against Salvador’s colonial colors, Dona Flor brilliantly contrasts Bahia’s rigid middle-class customs with the libertine life richly embodied by Wilker’s blond malandrinho and Braga’s erotic breakthrough performance. Considering the words of Amado, a communist militant who left Brazil from 1941–42, and music by Chico Buarque, who left during the ’60s military dictatorship, the film, while not overtly political, features themes of love, loss, and exile. Dona Flor became one of Brazil's most successful films upon its release in 1976, and remained its highest grossing for 35 years. Internationally, it received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and was the highest-grossing Brazilian film in the U.S. for more than 20 years.

4K restoration courtesy of L.C. Barreto Produções Cinematográficas.