Summary: Carlos Diegues directs this internationally popular 1980 film about a traveling tent show and its various players as the unsteady company tours the cities, villages, and jungles of Brazil. Diegues brings a nimble and inventive sensibility, and the film moves well with a fantasy-laced lyricism and wit that predate magic realism in cinema. The transience of the major characters allows Diegues to offer a roaming vision of the changing social culture in Brazil, and he does so with only gentle satiric asides. "--Tom Keogh"
Bye Bye Brazil
(1979)
