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Vidas secas (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvidɐs ˈsekɐs], meaning "Dry Lives"; Pre-Reform spelling: Vidas sêcas) is a 1963 Brazilian drama film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Graciliano Ramos.
A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes.
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- Drama
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos
- 1965
Feb 13, 2020 · A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes. Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
Blessed by God, Beautiful by Nature: On “Barren Lives”. The Brazilian novel and its Cinema Novo adaptation find in abject poverty a vexed relationship to speech and silence. Harvard at the Gulbenkian. Cinema Dialogues 2.2.
William L Vidas Secas isn't the rich man's interpretation of poverty, there's none of that Thoreau-ish nobility in the simplicity of peasant life. Instead, dos Santos calls a spade a...
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- Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
- Drama
- Átila Iório
Overview. In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.
Jan 21, 2006 · The desert stretches endlessly, yet the battered dignity etched on the characters’ faces attests to their unity as both family and culture, endlessly roaming for survival, mirroring neocolonial Brazil’s search for an identity and cinema of its own.
