Really great cultural snapshot. In books, even though you are reading words from a certain era, the images in your head are your own, and hence based on many modern images. But with film, you really see things as a snapshot in time. This film allows you to experience Carnival in Brazil in the late 1950's and really captures the spirit, mood, and zietgiest of the time while at the same time telling a fantastic allegory of a Greek tragedy.
The acting, is more exaggerated than what I'm used to in some scenes but in others it can be quite restrained. Exaggerated acting was common to films at the time, so not surprising or bothersome if you expect it.
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