Capitu and the Chapter

If you had to choose between me and your mother who would it be Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover Elsewhere they dance to inaudible music with their friends each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own At times this depiction of the memories we see one Dom Casmurro commit to paper with a flamboyant pen seems to be an interplay of conflicting emotions particularly when jealousy raises its head Adapted from the Brazilian classic novel Dom Casmurro 1899 by Machado de Assis as an ironicphilosophical essay on poetry and jealousy and featuring fragments of Bressanes previous works