![]() ![]() He was also a womanizer who spent many a night at the brothel.Īll of that is true the first half of the film flashes back to Dona Flor and Valdinho’s relationship, and how they made love on their wedding night-before he went off to the casino to gamble. Valdinho was an inveterate gambler, and a drunk, who treated Dona Flor badly, even beating her up. At the funeral, folks pay their respects, but they also gossip. His wife, Dona Flor (Braga) is in shock and bereft. ![]() The story, sent in 1943 Bahia, opens on a Sunday morning during Carnival, where folks are dancing and carrying on in the street until one of the men, Valdinho (José Wilker), suddenly dies. (The film has also been remade in Brazil as a feature in 2017, and it was the basis for a 2019 Mexican telenovela, among other iterations.) The film, which launched star Sonia Braga as the “Brazilian bombshell,” has been remade several times, most notably in 1982 as the poor (and PG-rated) Kiss Me Goodbye, starring Sally Field, Jeff Bridges, and the late James Caan, and, in 2009, as the gay Peruvian romance, Undertow. Starring Sonia Braga, José Wilker, and Mauro Mendonçaīruno Barreto’s enjoyable 1976 film version of Brazilian writer Jorge Amado’s 1966 novel, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, has just been issued on Bu-ray in a 4K restoration. ![]() Written by Bruno Barreto, Eduardo Coutinho, and Leopoldo Serran, based on the novel by Jorge Amado ![]()
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![]() In 1990, with ‘Shape-Shifter’, her first collection of stories, she made her writing talent known and received the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best debut. In the eighties she played small roles in English television and film, for example alongside Armin Müller-Stahl in ‘Utz’, a filmed version of the novel by Bruce Chatwin with whom the author doesn’t only share a longing to be in distant places. She was also born here in the former British colony on the Atlantic Coast of South America, sometime during the fourties. Thus, only fragments are known from her biography: her mother was English and her father came from Guyana. ![]() ![]() Is Pauline Melville related to Herman Melville, the author of ‘Moby Dick’? If she was, she wouldn’t utter a word about it as her own life story remains a well guarded secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, in Hattie’s words we have to “ Know Thy Impact.” As educators we all have to evaluate whether our practices are bringing out the best learning in our students. I am an evaluator-Evaluation isn’t just about the formal evaluation that comes down from the state education department and district offices. ![]() ![]() First and foremost, Hattie believes that in order to maximize learning we need to make sure that we embody the following 9 mindframes: Last week, as some of us presented with Hattie on his jam-packed presentation tour across the U.S., he announced a 10 th mindframe, which is easy to discuss but less easy to put into practice. Those Mindframes are equally as important for teachers and school leaders as well. John Hattie, someone I have worked with for the last year and a half as a Visible Learning trainer, has written extensively about the nine Mindframes our students need for learning ( click here for his guest blog when there were 7). They envelope our personal lives as well as into our professional conversations. We all teach, lead, and learn under different Mindframes. This post was originally published on Finding Common Ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The workbooks are specially tailored for the children with autism and ADHD, as well as their strengths and difficulties. How do we bake (and not)? What do we need?.What do others like? Do they like the same?.Life Skills in this Adrian and Super-A Workbook: what happens if we bake the cookies for too long? The colorful everyday situations and familiar book characters will engage any wanna-know-why boy or girl! For more fun learning, cut out the small memory game or bake coconut macaroons with the picture recipe inside! Learn together with our young superhero how to share toys and to understand that we can feel differently about the same thing. In this SMARTIES Workbook, your child will guide Adrian and Super-A through the steps of baking. The Adrian and Super-A Life Skills Workbooks are full of Lego bricks, building blocks, and things from your child's life! Find Life skills challenges mixed with a child's strengths and interests. Workbooks for children with autism spectrum disorder or ADHD ![]() |