Brazil dances the (metaphorical) samba with DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS
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In the mid-70s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, a Brazilian filmmaker barely out of his teens brought a beloved magical realist story about food, sex and happy compromises to the screen... and nearly blew JAWS out of Brazil’s box office waters. Featuring interviews with the film’s director Bruno Barreto and Kleber Mendonça Filho, co-director of the Cannes-winning BACURAU.Our first season, titled “Lost in Translation,” spotlights movies that were massive cultural phenomena in th...