Joseph Svenden is a middle-aged schoolteacher who lives on a farm with his dying mother. In his simple life there are no excitements, even in long-time relationship with a widow. However, when 17-year old beauty enrolls in his class, Joseph would soon end up in her arms. After that, Joseph is torn between the passion and feeling that he is doing something wrong.
Bruno Barreto (Rio de Janeiro, 1955) has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and he remains one of Brazilâs most accomplished and popular directors to this day. He uses to combine romance with erotism in a very far way of the usual Hollywood movies. An splendid Dennis Hooper (then 60 years old) plays the role of a 47 y.o. texan teacher in love at once with a widower colleague (Spielberg’s ex and then Barreto’s wife Amy Irving) and a sensuous young student (Amy Locane). The trio are being carried away by their own feelings.
