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  • Walter Hugo Khouri – O Prisioneiro do Sexo (1978)

    1971-1980ArthouseBrazilEroticaWalter Hugo Khouri

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    Marcelo tries to convince his wife to join his erotic games. The temptation of sexual freedom seems too much for her.Read More »

  • Glauber Rocha – Câncer (1972)

    1971-1980ArthouseBrazilExperimentalGlauber Rocha

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    The film does not have a story. There are three characters and violent action. I was interested in making a technical experiment, concernig the problem of the resistance of the duration of the cinematographic take. There, we can see how the technique interferes in the cinematographic process. I decided to make a film in which each take would have the length of a chassis, and study the almost elimination of the editing when there is a verbal action and a psychological action in the same take. – Glauber RochaRead More »

  • Hector Babenco – Pixote (1981)

    1981-1990BrazilCrimeDramaHector Babenco

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    The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc

    From Allmovie
    Review by Jonathan Crow

    Not since Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados has there been as savage and harrowing account of the plight of street kids or as damning a critique of Third World poverty and societal indifference. 10-year-old Pixote (“Pee Wee” in Portuguese) endures the brutalities of Brazil’s repressive, corrupt reform schools, where military death squads and juvenile prison rape are the norm, only to flee to the dubious freedom of Sao Paolo’s streets. Soon Pixote becomes a pimp, thief, and multiple murderer. Yet, through it all, the audience never loses sympathy for Pixote; director Hector Babenco makes clear that all Pixote wants and needs is a stable loving person in his life. Babenco’s work is in the same spirit as the 1940s Italian Neorealists who coupled a realist style with a keen sense of social injustice. His visual style is documentary-like and almost artless–a straightforward depiction of events. His true artistic feat lies in his handling of his actors, most of whom were street kids in real life.Read More »

  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Rio Quarenta Graus aka Rio 40ºC (1955)

    1951-1960BrazilClassicsDramaNelson Pereira dos Santos

    Banned by Brazil’s Federal Department of Public Safety, “Rio, 40 Grau”s is a landmark film that ushered in the wave of Neorealist cinema in Brazil – Cinema Novo. The film chronicles a day in the life of five peanut vendors from the favelas (shanty towns) of Rio de Janeiro. Other subplots involving characters they meet along the way are interspersed. This was one of the first Brazilian films to address the issues of race, poverty, and class. These themes would continue to be examined by dos Santos throughout his career.Read More »

  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Como Era Gostoso o Meu Frances AKA How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman [+Extras] (1971)

    1961-1970BrazilDramaNelson Pereira dos Santos

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    One of the best movies of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, as well as a key work by that movement’s greatest auteur, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman has been a favorite of film scholars since its 1971 release, when it was banned in its home country and rejected by the Cannes Film Festival for its “excessive nudity.” Outside of film schools and cinematheques, however, this subversive satire has been relatively inaccessible in America, a situation that the indispensable New Yorker Video label has finally rectified with their DVD release of the film. Director Nelson Pereira dos Santos sets his outrageous comedy about cultural misunderstandings in the 16th century, but his gifts as a cinematic storyteller allow the movie to resonate with modern audiences as though it was set—and produced—yesterday.Read More »

  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Terceira Margem do Rio AKA The Third Bank of the River (1994)

    1991-2000BrazilDramaFantasyNelson Pereira dos Santos

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    From the book “Brazilian Cinema” – Edited by Randal Johnson and Robert Stam:

    “The Third Bank of the River” is a coproduction (French and Brazilian) and, like the Guerra film, it too ingeniously interweaves diverses stories by its source author. Beginning with the story that provides the title for the film – the virtually wordless drama of a man who abandons his family to live on a boat in the middle of the river – Nelson Pereira dos Santos integrates four other stories. Liojorge (Ilya São Paulo) the son (in Nelson’s re-creation) of the enigmatic boatman of the first story, follows an enchanted cow and thus becomes the protagonist of another story (“Seqüência”) in which the cow leads him to the most beautiful woman in the world (Sonja Saurin).Read More »

  • Paulo Caldas & Lírio Ferreira – Baile Perfumado AKA Perfumed Ball (1997)

    Drama1991-2000BrazilPaulo Caldas and Lírio Ferreira

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    A close friend of “Padre Cicero” (Jofre Soares), the “Lebanese”Mascate” Benjamin Abraham (Duda Mamberti) decides to film “Lampião” (Luis Carlos Vasconcelos) and all his gang, believing that the film will make them rich. After some initial contacts he talks directly with the famous “Cangaceiro” and exposes his idea, but the dreams of “Mascate” are hampered by the dictorship of the Estado Novo.Read More »

  • Moacyr Góes – O Homem Que Desafiou o Diabo (2007)

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    José Araújo, an attractive, happy traveling salesman, arrives at the little town of Jardim dos Caiacós where he meets “Turco,” owner of the grocery and Dualiba’s father, a virgin forty-year-old woman. Excited at the pretty woman, Zé Araújo does what nobody else had ever dared to do. Dualiba tell her daddy what happened, and he looks for Zé Araújo to make an irrefutable proposal: marry his daughter. Years later, apparently resigned to his fate, Zé Araújo discovers he’s the joke in town. Unexpectedly, there’s a change from an attractive traveling salesman into a fearless Ojuara, who rides into the Northeatern Brazilian backlands to fight for the unprotected along a journey full of adventures and love conquersRead More »

  • Ivan Cardoso – O Conde Gostou Da Coisa (1974)

    1971-1980BrazilComedyCultIvan Cardoso

    “Comedy in which three friends are on the table in a bar to drink and tell his adventures. What is exaggerating the sailor drinks while listening to a narrative of an exciting strip poker which ends in a huge orgy. The binge was so great that when you arrive home the sailor has a nightmare where he is pursued by wild women on an island … “Read More »

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