A Idade da Terra
Juonikuvaukset(1)
A controversial film by journalist, critic, and filmmaker Glauber Rocha who is the founder of the Brazilian Cinema Novo. Because his movies were banned in his native country due to his left-wing sympathies, Rocha moved to Cuba in the 60s. Later on, he settled in the U.S. and Europe. In 1980 he returned to Brazil to make A Idade da Terra. In this film he tries to lay bare the nature of the Brazilian people while philosophizing about the future of the earth. Rocha thinks a new revolution is at hand: a combination of capitalism and socialism. This theory is based on the innovating - according to Rocha - forces of catholicism (pope John XXIII) and the power of the media. A Idade da Terra is characterized by a restless camera treatment. Rocha shows many symbols, using fading techniques and ultrashort shots which often have deliberately been over- or underexposed. These methods were fiercely criticized during the film festival of Venice (1980). (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
The pearl necklace explosively unravels disparate scenes of Brazilian carnival dancers from the Third World, connected by a thread of ecstatic resistance against everything that turns misery into misery and turns the poor into the poor - thereby resisting itself. This is formally manifested in irony toward its critical discourses and the discourse of film as such. Perhaps it won't be more stereotypical symbolic violence if I say that this film, in the style of more animalistic late Cinema Novo, activates the strongest of South American temperament. Under the parade of unrestrained images and proclamations, as a viewer in the Sambadrome stands, you can sense their common latent Dionysian energy, a carnal carnival of the will for freedom, redemption, and the struggle in the blood of dignity that will not be tamed by any capitalist, white man from the North, or any critical theory. The will for the growth of life, sprouting from the muck of the global South.
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Kuvagalleria (3)
Kuva © C.P.C. Cinematografica
