“Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is an intoxicating carnival of a movie, full of bright colors, noisy parties, home cooking, balmy Bahia atmosphere, pulsing Brazilian music...and steamy soft-core sex. The story, a kind of updated ribald folktale based on Jorge Amado's novel, concerns a young widow whose first husband is seen dropping dead of dissipation when the film begins. In flashback, we learn that he gambled incessantly, whore-mongered, downed rum by the quart, beat his wife, stole her money - and was dynamite in bed. Remarrying, Dona Flor gets the respectable, considerate husband she's always yearned for, but, much to her horror, she finds her neglected libido calling husband #1 back from the grave in all his priapic splendor....” --New Yorker Films