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Khouri once again critically examines his society, this time with a fitting aesthetic doubling of privileged detailed camera shots focusing on the gaze of the studied female characters, as if announcing that the perspective on this society will come from the viewpoint of women. This is a shift, as correctly stated in the article here (http://www.aescotilha.com.br/cinema-tv/central-de-cinema/o-palacio-dos-anjos-walter-hugo-khouri-critica/), compared to his most famous film Eros (1964), which is told from a male perspective. That is why the film may be disappointing for viewers who expect women to be portrayed as sexual objects because, despite the undeniable beauty of all the main characters and the sweetly reminiscent soap opera colors, this is a film as cold as the gaze of Geneviève Grad, in which the siren of escaping dreams always faintly echoes in the background music. In our society, predestination teaches us that luxury and money bring victory only to those who completely sell their soul, and this kind of Faustian gesture is played out here - and it is still played today and here.
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