Tuesday, July 31, 2007
ROAD SHOW
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
A wistful road film and near travelogue, an old fashioned traveling circus covers the length and breadth of a radically changing Brazil.
The story line is thin but does hold us into the realization that change is unstoppable.
It is mesmerizing. The music is a full catalog of Brazilian styles.
The people are great to watch.
There are more than a few touches of magical realism which I always appreciate.
We are at the movies after all. Let's use them for what they were made for.
It is a wonderful little film.
I couldn't help tying the film to what I read today about the world's great forests.
They will be gone in a hundred years.
So will the life shown in this film which is dedicated at the end to the 'Brazilians of the 21st Century'.
Wistful.
A 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
