Os Cafajestes
This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as ...
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"New Wave was not about adherence to life, that was the Italian school prior. It was about the radical ruptures in the narrative we considered life, about the breaks to and from cinematic illusion, it was about disillusionment. It's why the other school has faded, it is a relic now, because our taste of reality is dynamic and changes, while New Wave is still vibrant. This deserves to be discussed among the preeminent New Wave films. It sparkles and cuts through like the best of them. Brazilian viewers at the time would have known that a scandal was brewing around it. It would be the fir..."
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Norma Bengell's first nude scene.
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This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as ...