Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (as Júlio Machado)
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Feb 16, 2017 · ‘Joaquim’: Film Review | Berlin 2017. Director Marcelo Gomes dramatizes the personal and political struggles of a Brazilian folk hero in his "tropical Western," a Berlin competition contender.
- Stephen Dalton
Feb 16, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Joaquim’. Marcelo Gomes interprets the transformation of Brazilian 18th-century revolutionary Tiradentes in this lively drama about the awakening of Enlightenment thought. By Jay...
Feb 16, 2017 · After Blackie goes on the run, Joaquim is sent on a mission to a remote district, charged with finding further deposits of gold and precious stones for an insatiable royal treasury back in Lisbon.
Feb 17, 2017 · Joaquim is soon sent on an expedition to trace gold deep in the countryside (filmed all on location in Minas Gerais), a search all the more urgent as the region needs money to pay hefty taxes to the Portuguese crown.
Feb 18, 2017 · Brazilian director Marcelo Gomes tackles eighteenth century revolutionary Joachim Jose da Silva Xavier (aka Tiradentes) for his latest film Joachim, which is a more insistently inscrutable portrait of its subject than one could possibly predict, especially considering the succinctly abrupt title.
Feb 17, 2017 · The film benefits from painstakingly-researched sets, wardrobe (servicing the whole spectrum from Portuguese officials to the indigenous Indians, not to mention the slaves and African rebels) and lighting and, above all, offers us an insight into everyday life in eighteenth-century Brazil.
Apr 20, 2017 · Joaquim: Directed by Marcelo Gomes. With Julio Machado, Isabél Zuaa, Rômulo Braga, Marco Perpétuo. A partly fictional, partly historical account of the life of Brazil's national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, alias Tiradentes.
