Glauber Rocha x2: Black God, White Devil & Entranced Earth

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BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL

Deus e o diabo na terra do sol

1964

120 min.

Set in the drought-plagued Brazilian Sertão in 1940, Black God, White Devil explores the climate of superstition, physical and spiritual terrorism, and fear that gripped the country. The central characters, Manuel and Rosa, are on the run, and move credulously from allegiance to allegiance until they finally learn that the land belongs neither to god nor devil, but to the people themselves. The film’s storyline, somewhere between folk ballad and contemporary myth, contains a multitude of references to Brazilian history and culture. But Rocha’s project is fundamentally political, and completely unambiguous: he faces up to the contradictions of his country in an effort to understand, to crush mystiques, and to improve it.

ENTRANCED EARTH

Terra em transe

1967

110 min

Eldorado, a fictitious country in Latin America, is churning with an internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist and anarchist poet Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

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