Bye Bye Brazil
Directed by Carlos Diegues
This film, very much like "Time of Revenge" had to be cloaked to full the censorship of the time. Also like "Time of Revenge" this film is hard to classify, it camouflages as comedy-satire, but it is really Cine Novo as its best, with an implied protest for the inequality of social treatment of regional zones of Brazil, and the neglecting of the environment.
A group of seasonal, gypsy-like performers travels from the arid Northeast of Brazil, though the coast, to the Amazonian forest, providing a semi-documentary view of the country and its ethic diversification along the road.
At the beginning of the film, in the first town where the troupe performs, they allured the first symptom of denationalization: they want to see snow, like civilized countries have. The illusionist, "Lord Cigano" provides then with coconut powder as an example of it. This implied allusion starts to convey subtlety Digues' main idea: Brazil......
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