O Processo do Rei (The King's Trial)

In 1640, Alfonso I was the first king of a newly independent Portugal, married to a French princess. The crippled, simple­minded king became the focus of a plot to dethrone him, His wife took part in the scheme when she claimed publicly that he had never consummated their marriage. The pope annihilated the liaison, then the king was imprisoned... Told with the charming calculation reminiscent of Dangerous Liaisons, where smiles conceal scheming intrigues and surface manners are never allowed to disturb the conventions of court, the film is a scathing portrait of avaricious greed.