Mango Yellow
by Cláudio Assis
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Actor: Chico DÃaz, Dira Paes, Jonas Bloch, Leona Cavalli, Matheus NachtergaeleDirector: Cláudio Assis
Brand: First RUN Features
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Portuguese (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
Published: 2005-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of Mango Yellow
Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie really give a unique portrait of Brazil. It's well written and very well constructed. This story is MUCH different from the tons of movies that come out of Rio or Sao Paulo. It's a must see for Brazilian film lovers.
Summary of Mango Yellow
{Best Film -- 2003 Tolouse Latin American Film Festival}{C.I.C.A.E. Award -- Forum of New Cinema, IFF Berlin 2003}
{APCA Trophy -- São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards 2004}
Wellington (Chico Díaz) is a butcher in a slaughterhouse. His wife, Kika (Dira Paes), is a devout evangelical, given to wearing covered up clothing in a tropical city where skin is casually exposed all around. Wellington values his wife's religious conviction because it assures him of her fidelity, even as he carries on an affair with another woman.
Wellington delivers meat to the seedy Texas Hotel, whose flamboyantly gay cook, Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), lusts after the butcher to no avail. Aurora, an older resident of the hotel, is an asthmatic hooked on her oxygen tank, overweight, and terrified of the loneliness she suffers. Nearby, at a cafe, Ligia (Leona Cavalli), the barkeep, flaunts her sexuality even as she fights off the constant physical advances of the scruffy customers. One of those, Isaac, referred to as "the German," is obsessed with death, and buys bodies of newly deceased.
As the intertwined destinies of these "full dimensional people in touch with their explosive feelings" (New York Times) unfold, Assis offers a series of portraits of the people of this neighborhood--women and men, from children to the aged, of every shade of skin color. The hothouse atmosphere of Brazil comes alive in Mango Yellow, where lust and economic desperation combine in a volatile brew of provocative cinema.
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