It is a film of 1988 of John Canijo based on real facts.
It all started with a newspaper article about a crime involving a woman, her husband and her lover, this seems a perfectly banal love triangle right? But it is not. Delilah decides to turn her life around into a kind of escape from her everyday violence, through a radical change in her physical appearance and in her way of being. All results in the violent death of her husband and prison for the two lovers, but this is a "small detail" not very relevant for this movie, the message, I think, more importantly is, Delilah is no longer the victim and during this metamorphosis she realizes the power he wields with her sexuality and her femininity and you may even argue that it does not for the best reasons, yes, I agree, but she creates a character who hides the fragile and insecure woman from whom emerges the self-assured femme fatale in her back high heels. John Canijo decides to tell this story to demystify the idea of the Portuguese bland costumes, which he manages to prove. However, what remains is that he is also a director of women that generously gives them free rein to develop characters so rich and complex. Not an easy film, there is a scene that still brings me chills and a certain disgust, but here is my praise to the work of actress Ana Burstoff who composed a woman on the edge, which ends up making a mistake that she will pay. Good movie!
