THE PRIEST AND THE GIRL
Andrade’s first narrative feature, uncharacteristically restrained when compared to his more flamboyant films to come, is a compelling piece of work in its own right, a slice-of-village-life melodrama concerning the arrival of a priest (Paulo José) who comes to replace a dying predecessor in a parish in the province of Minas Gerais, and discovers a slow-burn infatuation with a local girl, Mariana (Helena Ignez). Beneath its austere, almost Bressonian surface and forbidding black-and-white cinematography, The Priest and The Girl crackles with quiet outrage, touching on incestuous smalltown life, hidebound parochial morality and, implicitly, a broader critique of Brazilian society.
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