This movie failed to blow me away, as it has done so many other millions throughout the decades since its release. I thought the photography was pretty great, but the acting was kind of clunky and the story dragged a lot and was very predictable. Full of moments that are "supposed" to be significant. I did very much like Jobim's music in the film, and the scenery and photography, but I didn't see much else here.
Festival scenes are impressive for the feeling of suppressed fury, and the approach of "death" is quite scary. The confrontation scene in the warehouse feels forced, though, like so much else in this movie stretching to fit itself into a costume, as it were, that doesn't quite fit it.
Festival scenes are impressive for the feeling of suppressed fury, and the approach of "death" is quite scary. The confrontation scene in the warehouse feels forced, though, like so much else in this movie stretching to fit itself into a costume, as it were, that doesn't quite fit it.