"The starting point of Brandos Costumes is simple, linear, objective: say a name, evoke an image and put them - name and image - on stage: S-A-LA-Z-A-R."

- João Lopes, from his text on "Brandos Costumes", in "Alberto Seixas Santos", Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, 2016

With a script written by three hands (his [Seixas Santos] and those of the poets Luísa Neto Jorge and Nuno Júdice), Seixas Santos focused on a story about a petty bourgeois family: grandmother, who had portraits of the last royal family in her room and still mourned the blond prince assassinated in 1908; father, anti-clerical Jacobin, as republican in his ideas as he was authoritarian and repressive in his family life; mother and eldest daughter, Salazarists (a speech by the mother to the maid about beggars is the text of an interview with Salazar); younger daughter "revolutionary", with a portrait of Che and the search for free love. The film focuses on the theme of the father's death in rhyme with Salazar's death, illustrated by many images from "Newspapers" and his funeral. The two orders and the two deaths are inseparable, making the family a microcosm of the country.

— João Bénard da Costa, extract from "Alberto Seixas Santos", bio-filmographic text, idem)