Tarde Da Noite Com o Demonio

Secluded castles, musty hallways, tree branches that reach like hands, mist-shrouded forests, stranded travelers, duplicitous lovers who conspire to murder, secret passageways that descend to deteriorating crypts–this is the stuff of Italian gothic horror, one of the most exciting and atmospheric sub-genres of film, and Mario Bava was one of its greatest practitioners.

A wealthy young man and a poor street lad cruise the streets of San Paulo looking for prostitutes in this erotic drama. Luis (Mario Benvenuti) and Nelson (Gabrielle Tinti) take Mara (Norma Bengeli) and Christina (Odete Lara) back to a luxury apartment. They watch X-rated films, have sex, and try to talk the women into a lesbian liaison. Christine is the hard-as-nails hooker who has long ago suspended any feelings, but the younger Mara still enjoys her encounter with the man and remains hopeful that someday she will find true love. Both men are left as emotionally empty as when they started their search for sex.

(1) "Solo de Violino" ("Violin Solo") In São Paulo, the bank clerk Rodrigo is an aspirant violinist with deep psychological problems. He is also a serial-killer of prostitutes and lives with his unpleasant and dominating mother Débora. When Rodrigo was a child, he witnessed the abusive and humiliating treatment of his mother to his father, a professional violinist who played in cheap bars. When Rodrigo meets his next door neighbor on a bus, she reveals that she is in love with his music and him. But Rodrigo has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. (2) "A Guerra da Malvina" ("The Malvina War") Four female thieves led by Malvina break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.

The Glauber Rocha Collection presents the restored versions four classics of the Glauber Rocha filmography in double-DVDs with almost ten hours of extra videos, including interviws, trailers, archives, sets of documentaries narrated in first person by the “voices of Glauber” recreating the context where each film was conceived and shown, as well as the dialogue that the author kept with the contemporary production. An indispensable collection for the fans of cinema and the Brazilian culture.