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La bête (1975)
DISTURBING, EROTIC and FUNNY
LA BÊTE was really a surprise for me. I've bought it because I was impressed with the first scenes : sex between horses. I've thought, it's such a strong image, and this director had the courage to show it, although it goes further of our morality limits. If you're waiting explicit sex scenes, don't waste your time. The characters are dragged into this ancient mansion, to this moment of revelation and discovery, when shall marry the ugly and isolated Mathurin with his innocent promised bride. We also have a glimpse of the mansion 200 years ago, the exact moment when a beast attacks a beautiful girl. It's the weirdest moment of the film, to laugh a lot with. It must be seen.
O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro (1969)
the great mix of myths
If you watch Hollywood movies only, this one may be hard for you. But it will be a great experience for some lunatics (like me) who believe in the power and in the freedom of the cinematographic images.
The subject is Brazil, the conflicts of a country that crossed a violent dictatorship at the time the movie was made. All the characters are representing groups of the brazilian society. Some of them, like the cangaceiros (poor and revolted people who became outlaws in the early 20th century), and the Saint (portrait of a blended religion that exists in Brazil, with elements of catholicism and african religions) are taken in a mythological approach. The delirious Glauber Rocha takes his characters to moral edges, leads them to crazy bang-bang scenes, to samba and war. There are no linear conclusions in the end. Only some new doubts and unusual beauty.