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How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Portuguese: Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês) is a Brazilian black comedy directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos released in 1971. Almost all of the dialogue in the film was written in the Tupi language. The actors and actresses who portrayed the Tupinambas wore historically correct attire, resulting in a ...
May 28, 2007 · by Fernando F. Croce. May 28, 2007. Jaundiced cultural allegory dressed up as anthropological re-creation, Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman slyly links Montaigne’s who-are-the-real-savages query to Brazil’s military dictatorship.
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Jul 19, 2007 · The brilliance of Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman is not only that it recasts “discovery” as colonization and questions the very strategies with...
Mar 11, 2019 · 11 March 2019. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This essay draws on tropicalist intermediality as a means to gain a deeper insight into the political contribution made by the film How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, directed in 1970 by Cinema Novo exponent, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and first screened in 1971.
- Lúcia Nagib
- 2019
Aug 12, 2018 · The brutal and twisted nature of the past has rarely been better explored than in Nelson Pereira Dos Santos’ sordid and perverted dark comedy, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Portuguese: Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês ).
A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a claim to Brazil before the Portuguese colonize it, is held by a hostile tribe that assumes he is...
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How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman is a film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, deep into the final phase of the Cinema Novo movement. As the title implies, it takes Oswald de Andrade's central metaphor and makes it literal, dealing with a French colonist captured and threatened with cannibalisation by the Tupinambá tribe.
