Bye Bye Brazil

Directed by Carlos Diegues

Film Movement Classics

1978

100 Minutes

France, Brazil, Argentina

Portuguese

Drama, Classics

Brazil, Latinx Studies, Film Studies

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DVD $150.00

Blu-ray $150.00

PPR $350.00

DRL $499.00

PPR+DRL $599.00

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When the colorful Caravana Rolidei rolls into town, young accordionist Cico (Fábio Junior) leaves behind his mundane existence and joins the troupe along with his pregnant wife. Led by the mysterious Gypsy Lord (José Wilker) and featuring the seductive Salomé (Betty Faria), the Queen of the Rhumba, the carnival moves through Brazil’s remote villages, encountering vagabonds, hustlers and non-stop adventure. But as their journey continues, Cico falls deeper under Salomé's spell while his fellow performers struggle to appeal to the modern tastes of a rapidly industrializing society.

Nominated for the Palme d'Or and considered one of the most significant films of the post-Cinema Novo period, Carlos Diegues' BYE BYE BRAZIL is a work of "exuberant entertainment" (The Village Voice) filled with "glittery magic" and set to a "bossa nova beat" (Time Magazine).

Presented in a new 4K version by L.C. Barreto Productions restored from the original film negative, which premiered at Cannes Classics.

Cast

José Wilker
Betty Faria
Fábio Jr.
Zaira Zambelli
Príncipe Nabor

Highest Rating
"''Bye Bye Brasil'' is a most reflective film, nicely acted by its small cast and beautifully though not artily photographed in some remarkable locations. It is civilized."

Vincent Canby, The New York Times
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"Jose Wilker is entertainingly mock-satanic as the troupe leader, [and] the scenery is wonderfully seductive in Lauro Escorel Filho’s cinematography. "

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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"Like many road movies, the film functions as a national allegory, where characters stand in for identity positions, and events that happen on screen resonate with national-historical significance."

Jessica Scarlata, PopMatters
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"Though his characters bemoan the changes underway, Diegues remains optimistically attuned to the bracing mishmash of races, moods, and attitudes they meet on the road. The title suggests closure, yet the film locates a nation very much still in the process of getting to know itself."

Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine
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"A sarcastic, sexy comedy...."

David Chute, The Boston Phoenix
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"One of the year's best films."

Roger Ebert
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"An exotic, earthy comedy...hums with vitality... a rare treat."

Bruce Williamson, Playboy Magazine
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"Carlos Diegues' Bye Bye Brasil (1979) is a film whose breathtaking beauty can not be denied. Meticulous, full of color, and charged with political innuendo this is also the work of a man with a vision."

Svet Atanasov, DVD Talk
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"This big-hearted road movie by the great Carlos Diegues shows much love for Brazil as a nation and as a people. It also works as a documentary of sorts, capturing the backroads of the northern regions of the country in the late ’70s. The ‘snow’ scene possibly led me to make one of my most popular short films, Recife Frio (Cold Tropics); the traveling ‘Rolidei’ troupe likely led us to the ‘pleasure truck’ with sex workers in Bacurau. Rewatched this recently, found the very last credit at the end of the picture moving, given the state Brazil is in today: Diegues dedicates the film ‘to all Brazilians of the 21st Century.’"

Kleber Mendonça Filho
Highest Rating
"The characters, landscapes, and colors that come and go in this road movie are so honestly Brazilian that the story may even walk in the direction of fantasy, surrealism, or absurdity that will not cease to be radically realistic."

Juliano Dornelles