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Sweet Hunters

Sweet Hunters (Ternos Caçadores)

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  • France,
  • Brazil,
  • Panama
  • 1970

Director Ruy Guerra
Cast Sterling Hayden, Susan Strasberg, Stuart Whitman, Maureen McNalley, Andrew Hayden
Genre Drama

An ornithologist (Hayden) goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife (McNally) and small son, and is joined by the wife's sister (Strasberg), who is getting over an abortion; later, an escaped convict (Whitman) is discovered. A situation which may seem naturalistic enough, but the form never is: incidents are isolated, cross-relations are oblique, emotions are unexplained. And as the narrative gradually coheres, Guerra daringly undercuts it with a series of disturbing emphases. As haunting and ambiguous as anything of Herzog's.

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