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| Bye Bye Brazil | 
| Director: Carlos Diegues
Actors: Jose Wilker, Betty Faria, Fabio Junior, Zaira Zambelli, Principe Nabor
Studio: New Yorker Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11213
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: Portuguese (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 110 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: NYVD38007D
UPC: 717119380748
EAN: 0717119380748
ASIN: B000NHG7D4
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
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Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 04/17/2007 Run time: 110 minutes
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 .... BORING November 10, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't understand how people rated this movie high! It has nothing absolute waste of time...
 Poignant July 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Brazil I lived in and loved during the sixties is vanishing. This film shows how and why.
one of my faves May 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Salome, queen of the rhumba! Ex-mistress of the President of the United States!" This movie rocks. Watch it!
A Classic Road Movie January 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you enjoy road movies, such as Fellini's La Strada or Leningrad Cowboys Go America, then be sure to see this one. It's a real travelogue, that takes you through Brazil's back roads and small rural villages. This travelling circus troope has to venture ever farther into the vast country's hinterlands to escape from its most deadly enemy.
And what is that? The tv! Where they see the dreaded tv antennas, they know it's time to move on. So they do.
This is a very touching film about the trials and tribulations of being a travelling performer--a tough life, but one that they would never give up. I can't imagine any of these people holding down an ordinary job. So naturally, I came to empathize with them to a surprising degree. By the end, they all seemed like old friends of mine.
The Original Save the Rainforest August 27, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Who can save the rainforest? An environmentalist? A politician? A magician? A saint? It's none other than Gypsy Lord himself (comic genius Jose Wilker of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) a character born of Fellini, Brecht, and, of course, Brazil Beautiful. But, hey, wait a minute! Gypsy Lord doesn't want to save anything. He's wants to strike it rich.
Bye Bye Brazil is Carlos Diegues's 1979 metaphorical goodbye to a country in the process of extinction. Exotic, exuberant, and often very moving, it is a mixture of primitivism and progress, social commentary dressed up as a comic bon voyage to old Brazil (and Old World entertainment) where TV, sex, disco and booze are fast squeezing out the simple miracles of life. Beautifully directed by Diegues and with music by Chico Buarque, Caravan Rolidei with its festively painted 2 ton truck rolls across the backlands of Brazil capturing real people and places of the time. Be amazed as Gypsy Lord makes it snow so Brazil is just like all the great first world nations. Listen as he reassures the poor campesinos that there is a place where it's always green and the young never lose their strength. In the end Gypsy Lord and Salome the Rhumba Queen (who, Ladies and Gentlemen, has slept with American Presidents!) drive off to Altamira as the sun rises yet again on command. Para Vigo Me Voy!
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