"Uma câmera na mão, uma idéia no estrangeiro" (A Camera in Hand, an Idea on the Foreigner)

"The emptiness of Brazilian film has a name: foreign land," observes critic Andre Parente, sure of the failure of Brazilian film after the cinema renaissance (retomada) since 1995. In this article I emphasize the encounter with the foreign in recent movies dialoguing with myths of Brazilian culture such as the pacific noble savage, the Portuguese empire in Brazil, Carmen Miranda's betrayal of Brazil, the Latin American culinary and erotic 'mojo.'

"Uma câmera na mão, uma idéia no estrangeiro" (A Camera in Hand, an Idea on the Foreigner) Presentation