The film has been a very powerful influence shaping the way tens of millions of Brazilians and non-Brazilians "imagine" Brazil. Until very recently, Dona Flor was the highest-grossing Brazilian film of all time, primarily because of its success overseas. 1 Through its phenomenal international box office success, the film sells to the rest of the world this alluring and compelling vision.
Bruno Barreto's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands brilliantly conveys a vision of Brazilian culture and identity in the 1970s at the very moment this vision's power peaks, and then begins to decline. Few films manage to capture and communicate images that sum up a nation's identity at a particular historical moment.
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