O Profeta da Fome
The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable an...
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"Certainly one of the best films from Cinema Novo movement, Maurice Capovilla's metalinguistic work brings José Mojica Marins (the famous Coffin Joe) to star as fakir Alikham, sided by iconic actors from Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Glauber Rocha's movies Joffre Soares and Maurício do Valle. With a beautiful harsh black and white cinematography and an amazing heterogeneous music score, the films is devided in small segments split in three great parts. The best one is the first of them, portraying hunger in the freak show circus, which reaches each time more bizarre levels in order to..."
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The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable an...