Bye Bye Brazil

By far Bye Bye Brazil is an essential Brazilian picture, perhaps among the top-ten of modern era at least, it owes too much for an awesome premise allied a well-drafted screenplay grounded in an illiterate language of the priceless main character Lorde Cigano (José Wilker) an epitome of the Brazilian trickster, together with a tawdry-hot lady Salomé (Betty Faria) and their faithful black sidekick Andorinha (Principe Nabor) traveling into smallest cities in the largest northeast of the Brazil, when they randomly meet a silly accordion player Ciço (Fabio Jr.) and his pregnant wife Dasdô (Zaira Zambelli).

They usually jumping into another town, unfortunately the time in changing with the advent of TV, also the harder drought in that surroundings did not allowed sell any ticket for money, instead they had to received some goods from the scarce audience, thus Lorde Cigano hears some news about a new road labeled Trans Amazon recently built linking into far off Altamira city a sort of the gate of the Amazon properly where according the source lays out the future of the country, beyond the far frontier where the money is, in this longest journey they stumble with the real natives, reaching in a crowed and cluttered city they didn't find any fortune whatsoever, although the turning point of their lives, then after more downs rather ups they split at last.

This fantastic picture conceived by the avant-garde director Cacá Diegues, exposes the real Brazil in turning of the seventies a changing period of time, a self-portrait of Brazilian people as a whole, it was produced by the old Brazilian clan of filmmakers Luis Carlos Barreto Productions with vast expertise in own cinema as DONA FLOR E SEUS DOIS MARIDOS, INOCÊNCIA, VIDAS SECAS, O HOMEM QUE DESAFIOU O DIABO just to name a few, a notoriously a true Brazilian triumph.

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First watch: 1995 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.5.