It is Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Diegues’s gift to be able to create entrancing, sensual film epics from his country’s tumultuous experience. Diegues’s film Quilombo, a word referring to a community of free men, carries an echo of the original Quilombo dos Palmares, or Palm Nation, which was founded in the early 17th century by runaway […]
Archives for March 2018
Feminine Agency in Desmundo
March 20, 2018 by ·
Desmundo is a sensitive story of the plight of a young, orphaned woman who is destroyed by a heartless patriarchal society. Sent to Brazil by royal decree to marry a European colonist, upon her arrival Brazil Oribela reluctantly agrees to marry Francisco de Albuquerque. After her failed escape attempt she is alone and devastated, […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Adventure or Historical Film?
March 20, 2018 by ·
In a conference room in southern California, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was pitching to the Walt Disney Company CEO (at the time) Michael Eisner a pirate film similar to those swashbuckling stories starring Burt Lancaster in the 1950s. That resulted in an irrevocable no from the head of the Disney company. But Bruckheimer persisted, saying the […]