Jardel Filho,
Paulo Autran,
José Lewgoy,
Glauber Rocha,
Paulo Gracindo
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This Brazilian example of cinema novo chronicles the struggle of a man deeply entangled within unstable and crooked politics. The story is told in flashback by a writer who explains how he got into hi... read more
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Rocha the anarchist...well,partially.The Autran-Lewgoy-Filho trio of compulsive reactions is more than enough for the disbelievers to continue watching an operatic motion picture way ahead of its time.Sure,it's a flashback but what a flashback that was!!!
Handheld cameras dance around ugly people doing. . .something vaguely political. I assume things have improved in Brazil, it doesn't hurt that one of their main exports is super-hot women.
One of the later entries (1966) in Brazil's short-lived Cinema Novo movement, applying New Wave pyrotechnics to popular and political mythology. Full Review
Rocha's frenzied mise-en-scene, which borrows from Fellini, Antonioni, and European avant-garde theater, is so stylized and self-referential that it probably appealed less to the masses than to the le... Full Review
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