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How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (DVD)

Arduino Colasanti (actor), Ana Maria Magalhaes (actor) and Nelson Pereira Dos Santos (director)

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Synopsis

The Indians get their revenge against the colonizers in this frequently amusing look at the settling of Brazil.
In the 1500s, French and Portuguese soldiers battled for possession of this large chunk of mineral-rich and beautiful New World territory. One fleeing French explorer, however, gets captured by the local Tupinamba Indians; though he tries to convince them that he's French, not one of their Portuguese enemies, the Tupi refuse to let him go. Instead, they begin preparing an elaborate tribal ritual. According to Tupinamba belief, if you consume your enemies, you appropriate their strength. So, they're going to eat their captive -- but not until they've elaborately inducted him into the group, had him marry the lovely Sebiopepe and taught him all about their way of life... and found out what they need to know about his.

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Review

Sight and Sound, 09/01/2007, p.89, "Blackly comic and anthropologically convincing, this represents a rare reverse angle on colonialism."

Title Note

The language of the film is a variation of Tupinamba. Even in Brazil, the film had to be subtitled.

Screened at the 1971 Berlin Film Festival.

Though no one knows if any of the Brazilian Indians were really cannibals (it is, in fact, doubtful that any were), the idea of cannibalism was very important for those Brazilian artists who participated in the modernist movement during the 1920s. They looked to the Indians as the original Brazilians and embraced the idea, strongly articulated in "How Tasty Is My Little Frenchman", that consuming your enemies meant that you then possessed their strength. It was a metaphor for artistic production and the relationship of third world writers and painters to contemporary European artistic movements: the modernists believed that you borrowed only to transform foreign ideas into something new and specifically Brazilian.
In the last phase of the Cinema Novo film movement in Brazil, which was known as "tropicalismo", many directors returned to the concepts of modernism articulated nearly four decades before.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Audio:
(unspecified) - French, Portuguese, Tupi
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Interviews - 1. Richard Pena
2. Ailton
Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer

Product Notes

This Brazilian fable (in French and Tupi) tells of a French explorer who, after being captured by a tribe of cannibals, tries to ingratiate himself before being eaten. Considered shocking due to its pervasive nudity, this comedy is an example of Brazilian Cinema Novo.

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