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Antonio Das Mortes

1969, Movie, NR, 100 mins

Antonio Das Mortes: Review

Powerful political film, with mercenary do Valle tracking down insurgents, killing all the members of one band and dispatching the leader in hand-to-hand combat in a wild bullet-ridden finale, only to discover his real sympathies are with the rebels. Clearly indebted to the directors of France's New Wave, Rocha would make greater films; nevertheless, ANTONIO DAS MORTES survives as a landmark in Brazil's emergent Cinema Novo by one of its finest filmmakers. Brazil's lush vege... read more leave a comment