2000 · comedy · religious · folk
O Auto da Compadecida
Directed by Guel Arraes1h 44m2000
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
Our read: O Auto da Compadecida (2000) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · religious · folk entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / religious, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
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