| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1969 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 90min |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Credits: | Directed by Julio Bressane. (Portugese with English Subtitles. 35mm) |
Synopsis
A tale of two bandits, one black and one white, who steal and murder, The Angel Was Born recalls the spirit of radical criminality evoked so often by Jean Genet. In the words of filmmaker Joao Silverio Trevisar, "The Angel Was Born is a damned, nihilistic, suicidal, and shattering film. It gave me a stomach ache. It made me think that right was wrong. Also because it is repulsive, repugnant, I've never loved a film with such contempt. And nostalgia too. I felt in it nostalgia for what I would have liked to have been; a subversive, total rebel, a bandit and a saint. The film is courageous enough to be perfectly iconaclistic, rude and perverse to the point of indignity. It is rare to see something so dignified. A savage film, of angelic demons who look at you sweetly before mugging you, who do not even know if they are going to mug you or suck you. Enough mystification. A prick is a prick. Orgasm is orgasm. It is cinema."
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