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Amor Bandido, dir. Bruno Barreto, Brazil 1979, 90 min., Portuguese with English subtitles
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Bruno Barreto’s follow-up to Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a love story of an entirely different order—a mixture of sexploitation sleaze and hard boiled melodrama that calls to mind Hardcore and Natural Born Killers. Set within the tropical, overcrowded quarters of Rio’s Copacabana, where newsstands peddle porn in comic books and a serial killer preys upon cab drivers, go-go girl/sex worker Sandra (Christina Aché) and her sadistic hustler boyfriend Toninho (Paolo Guarnieri) play out a doomed romance against the backdrop of this wanton killing spree, which happens to be investigated by Sandra's estranged cop father (Paulo Gracindo). Written by José Louzeiro and Leopoldo Serran, who allegedly based their screenplay on true events, Amor Bandido is a vividly unsettling and completely bizarre tale about a stratified patriarchal society and the uncontrollable fallout of its disenfranchised
youth.
4K restoration courtesy of L.C. Barreto Produções Cinematográficas.
youth.
4K restoration courtesy of L.C. Barreto Produções Cinematográficas.
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06:30 pm
Tue, 29 Apr 2025
Cinema 1
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