Brazil · 2002
1h 43m
Director Cláudio Assis
Starring Leona Cavalli, Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Dira Paes
Genre Drama
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In a poor neighborhood in Recife, the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works in the hotel and has a crush on the butcher Wellington that is married with the religious Kika and has an affair with his mistress Dayse. The sick necrophiliac Isaac owns a yellow Mercedes Benz and wants to have sex with Lígia that owns of Bar Avenida.
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Like characters out of some Carnival hell, a macho butcher and his born-again wife, a forlorn barmaid, a sinister sadist and the gay manager of a flophouse called the Hotel Texas run in and out of each other's lives in a film as sloppy, sluttish, scruffy and vital as they are.
It's a lot to suffer through for a film that has nothing to say, but insists on saying it anyway. Repeatedly.
It's a beautifully constructed, often disturbing look at a day in the life of several down-at-the-heels denizens of Recife.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
A shallow Brazilian trifle.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
For all the grimness and desperation on view in Mango Yellow, the characters emerge as robust, full-dimensional people in touch with their explosive feelings.
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