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Black God, White Devil (LE) One of the most acclaimed and influential Brazilian films ever made . Mawu Films is proud to present this milestone of Brazilian filmmaking in a brand new 4K restoration of the original 35mm materials preserved by the Cinemateca Brasileira.
Black God, White Devil is rapturous. Theological and sociopolitical allegory—an experimental western that is transcendental in style, with jarring bursts of violence emphasizing the age old power struggle between good and evil.
Black God, White Devil: wishing, speaking, lying Introduction In addition to an untoward racialization of the demonic and the divine, the English translation of Glauber Rocha's Deus e o diabo na terra do sol - Black God, White Devil - cuts god and the devil free from their tellurgical moorings in the land of the sun (terra do sol),
May 19, 2014 · Black God, White Devil. By Richard Brody. September 23, 2022. This ecstatic panorama of furious visions and revolutionary dreams in the vast, violent landscape of rural Brazil, made in 1963 by the ...
Fictionalized account of the adventures of hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism. The movie follows Antonio as he witnesses the descent of common rural worker Manuel into a life of crime, joining the gang of Antonio's sworn enemy, Corisco the Blond Devil (Othon Bastos), and the Pedra Bonita Massacre.
The banner film of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha’s masterwork Black God, White Devil is an epic tale of religion filled with false messiah’s, bandits and survival against the haunting landscapes of North Brazil.
With its roots in the legends and folk traditions of northeastern Brazil, Black God, White Devil is an epic exorcism of the violence and hunger-fed cultural derangements that have scarred that barren region for centuries. In near-hallucinatory images of astonishing power, based in part on actual incidents, Glauber Rocha depicts the saga of two peasants, Manuel and Rosa, and a charismatic Black beato, or messianic priest, whose authority threatens that of the Catholic Church and local landowners.
