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BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL

Directed by Glauber Rocha

Brazil, 1964, 2h 0min, DCP, In Portuguese with English subtitles

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Holy man versus religion. Power versus greed. This is no mere good versus evil tale but a fevered denouncement of fanaticism. The banner film of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha’s sophomore feature (shot at the tender age of 24) is a white-knuckled, proto-psychedelic Western allegory about the dangers of blind allegiance to religiosity. Utterly incomparable.

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