Macunaíma / Difilm apresenta na produção Filmes do Sêrro, Grupo Filmes, Condor Filmes ; adaptação e roteiro, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade ; produtor executivo, K.M. Eckstein ; direção, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade.
Publisher:
VideoFilmes,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Grande Otelo, Paulo José, Jardel Filho, Milton Gonçalves, Dina Sfat, Rodolfo Arena. Narrator: Tite de Lemos. Based on the novel by Mário de Andrade. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Digitally restored. Special features: the 1967 documentary: Brasília, contradições de uma cidade nova (23 min.); Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda talks about Macunaíma; 'making of' documentary on the digital restauration (15 min.); Paulo José on Mário de Andrade.
Summary:
"In Macunaíma, cinema novo pioneer Joaquim Pedro de Andrade adapted a masterpiece of Brazilian modernism to reflect the simultaneous triumph of tropicalismo and onset of military dictatorship. Pure essence of 1969, the movie is a funny, freewheeling mélange of primitive myth and Busby Berkeley, hippie street theater and cabaret star Grande Otelo, glamorized urban guerrillas and documented candomblé rituals; it's full of racial high jinks, with a free-floating cannibal metaphor applied most savagely to a capitalist ogre."--Village Voice.
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