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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303011073 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303011071 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: October 13, 1997 Running Time: 110 minutes Sales Rank: 6920 Studio: Fox Lorber
Amazon.com: Carlos Diegues directs this internationally popular 1980 film about a traveling tent show and its various players as the unsteady company tours the cities, villages, and jungles of Brazil. Diegues brings a nimble and inventive sensibility, and the film moves well with a fantasy-laced lyricism and wit that predate magic realism in cinema. The transience of the major characters allows Diegues to offer a roaming vision of the changing social culture in Brazil, and he does so with only gentle satiric asides. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - .... BORING
I don't understand how people rated this movie high! It has nothing absolute waste of time...
Rating: - Poignant
The Brazil I lived in and loved during the sixties is vanishing. This film shows how and why.
Rating: - one of my faves
"Salome, queen of the rhumba! Ex-mistress of the President of the United States!" This movie rocks. Watch it!
Rating: - A Classic Road Movie
If you enjoy road movies, such as Fellini's La Strada or Leningrad Cowboys Go America, then be sure to see this one. It's a real travelogue, that takes you through Brazil's back roads and small rural villages. This travelling circus troope has to venture ever farther into the vast country's hinterlands to escape from its most deadly enemy.
And what is that? The tv! Where they see the dreaded tv antennas, they know it's time to move on. So they do.
This is a very touching film about the trials and tribulations of being a travelling performer--a tough life, but one ... Read More
Rating: - The Original Save the Rainforest
Who can save the rainforest? An environmentalist? A politician? A magician? A saint? It's none other than Gypsy Lord himself (comic genius Jose Wilker of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) a character born of Fellini, Brecht, and, of course, Brazil Beautiful. But, hey, wait a minute! Gypsy Lord doesn't want to save anything. He's wants to strike it rich.
Bye Bye Brazil is Carlos Diegues's 1979 metaphorical goodbye to a country in the process of extinction. Exotic, exuberant, and often very moving, it is a mixture of primitivism and progress, social commentary dressed up as a comic bon ... Read More
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