Moro no Brasil
Germany / Finland / France / Brazil,
2001, 104 min
Shown in 2002
CREDITS
- dir
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Mika Kaurismäki
- prod
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Phoebe Clarke
- scr
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Mika Kaurismäki, George Moura
- cam
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Jacques Cheuiche
- editor
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Karen Harley
- source
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The Finnish Film Foundation, Kanavakatu 12, FIN-00160, Helsinki, Finland. FAX: 358-9-6220-3060. EMAIL: ses@ses.fi
- premiere
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North American Premiere
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COMMENTS
Shown with My Buddy, Zé Ketti. Mika Kaurismäki in person.
OTHER
Dancing a few steps beyond bossa nova or samba, this musical journey through Brazil highlights frevo, coco, forró and embolada, to name just a few of the amazingly diverse styles of music it so spontaneously, gloriously displays. Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki (brother of Festival favorite Aki), who earlier traveled through Brazil with Samuel Fuller and Jim Jarmusch in Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made, gets out of the way and instead lets the music—and the people—stand alone. Anecdotes and tall tales are the spoken narratives of choice for Brazil’s musicians, singers and dancers, but the rhythms they create remain unclassifiable. Few films capture the spontaneousness and passion of live music like Sound of Brazil: The performances here, whether in the concert hall, in bars, in backyards or in the streets, bring the music to life, and will serve as a living textbook of Brazil’s genres and musicians for years to come. Traveling 4,000 kilometers through the beauty of the Brazilian countryside and the chaos of its urban streets, Kaurismäki’s road movie reveals all the richness of the multifarious, multicultural rhythms and forms of expression that Brazilian music offers.
FACTOID #328
Saul Bass, the genius graphic designer behind the introductory sequences to Hitchcock’s Psycho, Vertigo and North by Northwest, designed the posters for the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth installments of the San Francisco International Film Festival.
