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Hunger for Love
BRAZIL · 1968

Hunger for Love

Nelson Pereira dos Santos
adultery colonialism avant-garde cinema Vietnam War cultural hybridity
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Synopsis

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and i

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