Cinema
Bye Bye Brazil
Bye Bye Brasil
Carlos Diegues · 1980
Synopsis
Three travelling performers, Lorde Cigano, a mysterious illusionist, Salomé, the “queen of the rumba”, and Andorinha, travel across Brazil with the Rolidei Caravan to give their show to the poorest, those who do not yet have television. Ciço, a young accordionist, leaves his ordinary life to follow them with his pregnant wife, Dasdô, and falls under Salomé's spell. From one remote village to the next, the troupe struggles to please a country that is industrialising fast.
Context
Written by the director with Leopoldo Serran, the film brings together José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Júnior, Zaira Zambelli and Príncipe Nabor. Completed in 1979, it was released in Brazil on 8 February 1980 and competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes the same year. Its title song is by Roberto Menescal and Chico Buarque. Film Movement regards it as one of the most significant films of the post-Cinema Novo period. A 4K restoration, carried out by the company L.C. Barreto from the original negative, was presented at Cannes Classics in 2024.
Who it is for
A road film of about a hundred minutes, in Portuguese, following a troupe from village to village.
Prizes and reception
Selected for the official competition at the 1980 Cannes festival, then back on the Croisette in its restored version, forty-four years later.
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