The Seven Kittens

The Seven Kittens

1980 · 109 min · PT · 6.1 (21 votes)
Dir. Neville D'Almeida · Starring Antônio Fagundes, Ana Maria Magalhães, Lima Duarte, Ary Fontoura, Sura Berditchevsky, Sônia Dias · Music Lulu Santos

Who drew the flying dicks on the bathroom wall?!

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Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.

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A suffocating atmosphere of unspoken dread permeates this family drama. Tense silences and simmering resentments build towards an inevitable, tragic unraveling. It’s a deeply unsettling, character-driven descent into darkness.

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