D Jaime ou a Noite Portuguesa

This is one of Noronha da Costas films in which the fictional component is most visible D Jaime or the Portuguese Night like the rest of Noronha da Costas films is part of the gothic films Terence Fishers work was one of his great influences and in it he shows the different variations around the specular bodies which evolve into luminous magic and into sensual and sensory incandescence At the same time we witness a series of ironic and erotic or historical views of wicked virgins and laughable sadists all resurrected from German and British romanticism while the scenery is no longer Portuguese