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Film CINEMA NOVO AND BEYOND BYE BYE BRAZIL MACUNAÍMA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1999 $6 ($3 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM MEMBERS PAY HALF PRICE!

BYE BYE BRAZIL
(BYE BYE BRASIL)
7 PM
Directed by Carlos Diegues
Made during a period of relaxed censorship in Brazil, Carlos Diegues' picaresque film playfully examines the fusion of Western and indigenous cultures and the impact of technology on this tradition-laden country. The story revolves around the adventures of the Fellini-like Caravan Rolidei, a small group of performers featuring a magician, a rumba dancer, and a strong man. As they travel their homeland, the troupe is confronted with Brazil's fading past and a present dominated by Americanized notions of "progress." 1979, Brazil, 110 minutes.

MACUNAÍMA
9 PM
Directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
While based on Mário de Andrade's late 1920s satirical novel, Macunaíma takes aim at a host of thoroughly contemporary late 1960s targets ranging from Brazil's short-lived "economic miracle" and its "coup-within-the-coup" to the country's subtle forms of racism. The resulting work manages to mix a social critique worthy of Karl Marx with the sort of aggressive slapstick energy characteristic of the Brothers Marx in a surreal exposé of the multiple forms of cannibalism that mark society. 1969, Brazil, 105 minutes.