Amor Estranho Amor -love Strange Love- -1982- English Dubbed Awesome Movie -

A young boy, HUGO (12 years old, wide-eyed and gaunt), is dumped from a rickety truck outside an iron gate. He’s been sent from his destitute grandmother in the countryside to live with a mysterious benefactor. The gate swings open to reveal a sprawling, decadent modernist mansion overlooking the glistening bay.

The film’s controversial heart beats here. The "strange love" is not what the censors feared. It is the love of a desperate woman using a boy as a confessional. It is the love of a corrupt man mistaking ownership for affection. It is the love of a child who mistakes fear for excitement.

Hugo is scrubbed clean by a stern housekeeper, DONA LAURA (50s, iron-willed). She looks at him with a mixture of pity and disgust. A young boy, HUGO (12 years old, wide-eyed

The "party" begins. Downstairs, men in military uniforms and crisp white suits drink champagne and watch Anna and Tamara perform a slow, venomous dance. Upstairs, Hugo is hidden in a wardrobe, peering through the slats. He watches Anna weep after each performance. He watches Tamara bargain with Dr. Welles for money and favors.

We see a distinguished, gray-haired man, HUGO (60s), sitting alone in a first-class train carriage. Rain streaks the window, warping his reflection. He holds a faded photograph: a beautiful, sad-eyed woman in 1940s attire. He turns the photo over. Scrawled in faded ink: "Rio, 1942. The night of the party." The film’s controversial heart beats here

"Strange love, sweet and cold / A story that can never be told / In the house of silk and shame / He learned a different kind of game..."

She laughs—a broken, beautiful sound.

Tagline: In the house of power, pleasure is the only prison. Prologue: The Voice from the Grave The screen is black. We hear the heavy, rhythmic clack-clack of a train on tracks. Then, a man’s voice, weary and aged, begins to speak in perfect, crisp English (dubbed with the gravitas of a classic film noir narrator).