Macunaíma
Dir. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
LIFF Spotlights - DESLOCAMENTOS: BRAZILIAN CINEMA ON THE MOVE
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Fri 31 Oct18:15Everyman Cinema Leeds, LeedsScreen 4
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Sat 1 Nov11:00Everyman Cinema Leeds, LeedsScreen 4
The fantastical story follows our eponymous hero miraculously born fully grown as a black man in the Amazonian jungle. He transforms into a white man as he ventures out into the city, falling in love with a revolutionary and clashing with a wealthy industrialist. A bit like a multicultural Brazilian Monty Python.
"The film, the introduction tells us, is about consumerism as cannibalism, about a Brazilian devoured by Brazil. It's a bizarre and often very funny comedy that applies its central thesis with unerring accuracy." — Time Out
Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Running time 110 mins
Production year 1969
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese
Courtesy of Antônio de Andrade
