A witty satire by Nelson Pereira dos Santos (adapted from a novel by Jorge Amado) on the rediscovery and official canonization of a forgotten Brazilian miscegenationist whose work in his own lifetime got him nowhere but into jail. This is a closer companion piece to the director's colorful and comical The Alienist and How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman than to his black-and-white and utterly bleak Barren Lives and Hunger for Love: its blend of ivory-tower humanism, irony, quaintness, and raconteurship is possibly a bit reminiscent of Anatole France, with the added spice of a Third World political acumen. With Hugo Carvana, Sonia Dias, and Juareú Paraiso. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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