Madame Sata
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
Sombre, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
Our read · Madame Sata (2002) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Madame Sata
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