SNATCHING SPIRITUAL VICTORY FROM SQUALOR

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: April 17, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

"HOUR OF THE STAR" -- Directed by Suzana Amaral,

screenplay by Amaral and Alfredo Oroz based on Clarice

Lispector's novella. Starring Marcelia Cartaxo, Jose

Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro, Umberto

Magnani, Denoy de Olivera, Claudia Rezende, Lizette

Negreiros, Mario do Carmo Soares, Sonia Guedes. At the

Coolidge Corner in Portuguese with subtitles, unrated. I am a typist and a virgin and I like Coca-Cola," says 19-year-old Macabea, who has just moved from Brazil's undeveloped northeast to Sao Paolo. For her, it's a long speech, crammed ...

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