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Mitt hem är Copacabana [My Home Is Copacabana] (Arne Sucksdorff, 1965)

Aug

2

Mitt hem är Copacabana (1965)

The favela children on the beach, playing with kites and mingling with the rich kids. DP: Arne Sucksdorff.

A kite in celebration of 浜松まつり, the Hamamatsu Kite Festival, which takes place on May 3–5*

 

Favela kids steal kites and sell them on in this Copacabana-set Nordic drama.

 

Toninho Carlos de Lima, Rico in the movie, was not a homeless kid from the favelas but lived in a house with his family when he was send to Sweden to promote Mitt hem är Copacabana. A wealthy Swedish couple offered to adopt him, and his natural mother reluctantly gave in hoping to prevent a life of crime for her son (source). That too, dear reader, is colonialism.

 

Nosferato no Brasil [Nosferato in Brazil] (Ivan Cardoso, 1970)

Jun

21

International Surfing Day

Nosferato no Brasil (1970)

Nosferatu enjoys the breeze and fresh coconut water on the beaches of Rio. I could've posted a still of the surfers here but that would have been boring.

Someone surfing or skateboarding for either International Surfing Day or Go Skateboarding Day

 

José Mojica Marins' protégé Ivan Cardoso dabbled in short form horror movies. This one features a young hippie vampire who, after being defeated in beachy black-and-white Prague, hikes a ride to Super 8 Brazil. Can't help but notice a bit of (Charlie) Mansonsploitation going on, but that may be just me.