Summaries

The actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character's fiction. As the involuntary object of chance and circumstance, he looks for a meaning and way out, while being pursued by outlaws, a magician, a romantic fantasy, a drunk and his own self-image. The humour, the reason of the persecution, situations, personages, set decoration, dialogs and soundtrack (which uses themes from other films) lead us to symbols, metaphors and the refusal of a possible logical narrative, in a way to allow the viewer to experiment a sensation analogous to the one of the main character, inducing in him the need of thinking a meaning while lost and led by the sustained expectation, and by the intentionally recurrent anti-climax.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • slapstick comedy
  • mask
  • brazil
  • improvisation
Genres
  • Comedy
Release date Feb 10, 1971
Countries of origin Brazil
Language Portuguese
Filming locations Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Production companies Total Filmes

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 25m
Color Black and White
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1

Synopsis

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