God Is Brazilian
by Carlos Diegues
from Fox Lorber
God is stressed and needs a break from the Earth and the troublesome human race. But before he can take his vacation, he has to find himself a temporary replacement.
Tieta of Agreste
by Carlos Diegues
from Fox Lorber
Interactive Menus, Production Credits, Filmographies, Scene Access, Photo Gallery
Bye Bye Brazil
by Carlos Diegues
from New Yorker Video
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
Orfeu
by Carlos Diegues
from New Yorker Video
Carlos Diegues's Orfeu brings the Orpheus myth (by way of the Vinicius De Moraes play, which also inspired Marcel Camus's gorgeous Black Orpheus) into the modern world of laptops and hip-hop, cell phones and street crime. Orfeu (Toni Garrido), Rio de Janeiro's samba king and a kind of god to his neighbors in the labyrinth of slums on Carioca Hill, is humbled by his love for Euridice (Patricia França), a sweet and stunningly beautiful girl from the provinces. Shot on location at Rio's fiery Carnaval celebrations and on a dynamic recreation of Carioca Hill's slums, Diegues's dazzling mix of musical extravaganza, romantic tragedy, and gangland crime drama drops the myth into the poverty and violence of slum life. The drama gets stifled in silly romantic entanglements, but Brazilian pop star Garrido and lovely França have charisma to burn, and the stunning canvas of exploding color is never less than enthralling. --Sean Axmaker
Orfeu
by Carlos Diegues
from New Yorker Video
Whether or not a man catches a train leaving Poland leads to three very different resolutions. This early Kieslowski film explores the themes of chance and fate which watermark his later films Dekalog, The Double Life of Veronique and the Three Colors Trilogy. RESTORED WIDESCREEN EDITION. ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
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