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Sonia Braga is another family member, an ephemeral one: Her character, Jess' wife, died last season. That's part of the Latin American literary tradition of magical realism infusing the drama, and which Nava calls true to the tone of such novels as ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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I[N] addition to the apparent similarities between Tieta and Sonia Braga, the film has a special place in her long relationship with the writer. He gave her the film rights and it was she who set the ball rolling by inviting Carlos Diegues to direct.
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Born in Maringa, Brazil, Sonia Braga acted on the stage as a teenager. She quickly rose to stardom on Brazilian soap operas during the '60s, but it was not until Bruno Barreto's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1977) that she gained international screen stardom. She played the title character, a remarried widow who is prone to erotic visits from her first husband's ghost. She worked with Barreto again for the 1983 erotic drama Gabriela, based on one of her TV roles. Her first mainstream Hollywood movie was Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), in the dual role of the mythical title character herself and the woman of Raul Julia's past. She then appeared with Julia in her next few films, including Paul Mazursky's Moon Over Parador (earning her a Golden Globe nomination), Clint Eastwood's The Rookie, and John Frankenheimer's The Burning Season (earning her an Emmy nomination).
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A sultry and sensuous brunette, Sonia Braga began her career in her native Brazil as a teenager and made her stage debut at 17. From the late 1960s, she began to amass an impressive body of work, including appearances in several soap opera-like miniseries (telenovelas). Braga became an international sex symbol as a woman torn between her living spouse and the ghost of her dead one in Bruno Barreto's "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" (1977). She and Barreto reunited in 1983 for a film version of one of her most famous TV roles, "Gabriela".
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Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange events that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing) Attempting to marry more wisely the second time around, Doña Flor weds a stable, but boring, pharmacist who has no interest in sex. When she discovers that her new sex life is less than satisfying, Doña Flor is visited by the sexy ghost of her late husband. This film is in Portuguese with English subtitles. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
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Alice Braga, niece of legendary Sônia Braga, is a Brazilian actress. She has appeared in several films, getting her start in as Angélica in Fernando Meirelles highly acclaimed City of God. She next starred in Sérgio Machado's debut film Lower City. She won the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Actress for her performance.
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