Exam Day, So Let's Look at a Movie Instead: Os Normais, the Normal Ones from Brazil.

All right, today's the final for the advanced Portuguese class, so I haven't much time: got to review some subjunctive conjugations (nobody told me that Portugueses uses the subjunctive A LOT, which is tough for native English speakers who never suspected their mother tongue used that tense: would that I had learned earlier! ). Last night we were shown a Brazilian comedy about which we had to answer questions and then discuss. That's all part of the catch-up classes after the lecturers' strike at the Université de Montreal, and it was very intersting excercise.

The film was Os Normais, a slap-stick comedy that was released in 2003 as a prequel to a very popular situation comedy that had been running for a couple years at that point. Basically it tells how the principal characters, Rui and Vani, meet--during and after their previous weddings to other people. Lots of sexual innuendo, much rushing around and probably the best car chase I've seen since Steve McQueen in Bullitt. Anyway, it was fun, but there doesn't seem to be an English translations of dialogue on YouTube. So here is the trailer in Portuguese which may give you a laugh anyway.