Madame Satã
Reviewed in September 2010
Director: Karim Aïnouz. Cast: Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques, Emiliano Queiroz, Renata Sorrah, Guilherme Piva, Ricardo Blat, Giovana Barbosa. Screenplay: Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes, Sérgio Machado, and Mauricio Zacharias.
Twitter Capsule: Risks of exoticism, overacting pay off well enough; evokes Before Night Falls's creative fury with harsh, Genetian edge

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What's beautiful is this flask I am pulling from your pocket; It's my problem if my hole is itchy and sore; PREPOSTEROUS in diva Brazilian: Don't trust the nigger, they said. He's a mad dog. My clothes stink now; scheherazade; pickpocketing Alvaro, with Taboo playing panicky "Fatima"; Grade: B


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Awards:
Chicago International Film Festival: Golden Hugo (Best Picture)

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