2007 / 106 min / Fiction
Original Title: Primo Basílio
Director: Daniel Filho
With: Débora Falabella, Fábio Assunção, Glória Pires, Reynaldo Gianecchini.
Luísa is a romantic, dreamy young woman, and Jorge a mild-mannered man of good economic standing. Although they hardly know each other, they marry. Luísa is a model wife and homemaker, "she was happy as a bird" until everything changes when she stumbles upon her childhood love: her cousin Basílio. What begins as a great adventure turns into a nightmare, and Luisa will come to learn the price of infidelity.
Adapted from the novel of the same title by Eça de Queiros, one of the greatest novelists of Portuguese literature.
Cousin Basílio
