The Brazilwood Man

Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Year 1982
Country Brazil
Runtime 1h 46m
Language Portuguese
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Format Digital
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Synopsis

De Andrade’s final film is sure to leave even the most well-versed student of Brazilian culture in the dark. Much like “Ulysses” however, it can be enjoyed and appreciated even without a full understanding of the satirical references or Portuguese language puns. Constructed around the ideas of poet and political theorist Oswald de Andrade (no relation), it is a series of collage-like fragments connected by a monologue of Oswald’s words, ending with words that may constitute a fittingly rude epitaph to Joaquim’s work, “Go fuck yourself, you shithead revolutionaries.”

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