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Brazil · 2009
1h 50m
Director Raphael Alvarez, Tatiana Issa
Starring Cláudia Raia, Miguel Falabella, Liza Minnelli, Gilberto Gil
Genre Documentary
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A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
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Essentially a queer-cabaret-cum-performance-art-spectacle, the Croquettes went from local phenomenon to international sensation, opening up sexual mores in then-repressive Brazil and wowing Paris before their AIDS-fueled downfall.
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
What's easy to appreciate in the documentary, however, is the way it reassembles the Dzi Croquettes' trajectory without polishing off its jagged edges. It's through their brilliance and their flaws that they become muses.
It's the mind-blowing performance footage (and there's lots of it) that makes this a must-see film.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Dzi Croquettes is both a tribute and a terrific entertainment.
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
If the film doesn't measure up as a piece of historical scholarship, it does manage to be a rather touching exploration of the troupe's life cycle: achieving notoriety, then being torn apart by fame, then being destroyed by forces beyond its control.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Farber
Although the film recounts an intriguing slice of social history, it is too haphazard and repetitive to be truly memorable.