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The Forbidden Symbols
Ernesto Hernández Busto
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The funniest moment of the only movie that Caetano Veloso ever made, O Cinema Falado (1986), is a scene in which Brazilian actress Regina Casé parodies the gestures and body language of Fidel Castro. 1 Within the collage of an avant garde film-essay, the parody is a humorous parenthesis that alternates between quotes from Heidegger, Guimarães Rosa, Thomas Mann, Gertrude Stein, combining with popular dance and music scenes, the visual grammar of Cinema Novo, and an entire…
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 1, 2015
Category
Film, Performance, Language & Linguistics, Surveillance & Privacy
Subjects
Cuba, Propaganda, Nihilism , Death