Golden Mouth

Golden Mouth

100 mins | Drama | May 3, 1963

For his first in a long series of wildly imaginative literary adaptations, dos Santos reinvented Nelson Rodrigues' novel about a pathological gangster with solid gold teeth and a voracious appetite for women and power. Embracing radically modernist narrative techniques, Golden Mouth offers a splintered, refractive portrait of brutal masculinity that returns repeatedly to the same moment from different vantages, each time revealing unexpected perspectives on the brutal yet strangely charming criminal. Lurid and disturbing, Golden Mouth delivers a savage satire of marriage and class pretensions, revealing a similar venality at the corroded heart of the sanctimonious bourgeoisie, the moneyed elite and the working class as they all mercilessly claw their way up and down the rickety and ruthlessly hierarchical Brazilian social ladder. -Harvard Film Archive

Golden Mouth

100 mins | Drama | May 3, 1963

Golden Mouth
For his first in a long series of wildly imaginative literary adaptations, dos Santos reinvented Nelson Rodrigues' novel about a pathological gangster with solid gold teeth and a voracious appetite for women and power. Embracing radically modernist narrative techniques, Golden Mouth offers a splintered, refractive portrait of brutal masculinity that returns repeatedly to the same moment from different vantages, each time revealing unexpected perspectives on the brutal yet strangely charming criminal. Lurid and disturbing, Golden Mouth delivers a savage satire of marriage and class pretensions, revealing a similar venality at the corroded heart of the sanctimonious bourgeoisie, the moneyed elite and the working class as they all mercilessly claw their way up and down the rickety and ruthlessly hierarchical Brazilian social ladder. -Harvard Film Archive
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Copacabana Filmes, Inbracine Filmes, Fama Filmes
Original title Boca de Ouro
Directors Ivan De Souza, Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Writers Nelson Rodrigues, Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast

Jece Valadão

as Boca de Ouro

Odete Lara

as Dona Guigui

Daniel Filho

as Leleco

Ivan Cândido

as Caveirinha

Adriano Lisboa

as Agenor

Georgia Quental

as Lúcia

Zé Keti

as Anotador de apostas

Maria Pompeu

as Grã-fina

Sulamith Yaari

as Grã-fina

Rodolfo Arena

as Dentista

Maurício do Valle

as Guarda-costas

Wilson Grey

as Banguela