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Land in Anguish

Play trailer Land in Anguish 1967,  1h 46m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 60% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 81% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
60% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 81% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
A Brazilian poet finds himself torn between the views of the man who raised him and those of a reformer.

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Roger Greenspun New York Times Jan 15, 2005
I have now seen enough of Rocha's work to know that I dislike it for its own sake, and not for the unfamiliarity of its locale and people or for the ritual obsessiveness of its themes. Go to Full Review
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Jan 1, 2000
One of the later entries (1966) in Brazil's short-lived Cinema Novo movement, applying New Wave pyrotechnics to popular and political mythology. Go to Full Review
Ted Shen Chicago Reader Jan 1, 2000
Rocha's frenzied mise-en-scene, which borrows from Fellini, Antonioni, and European avant-garde theater, is so stylized and self-referential that it probably appealed less to the masses than to the left-wing intelligentsia it scrutinizes. Go to Full Review
Serge Daney Cahiers du Cinéma Feb 14, 2024
It is right when he abandons any notion of plausibility or concern for accuracy, when he returns to allegory, and then opera, that Glauber Rocha seems the most gifted. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Sep 30, 2005
4/5
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Finn W Feb 4, 2017 Dystopian Brazilian film about two political candidates who are undermined by those around them.
Kylo R Oct 29, 2012 This Brechtian allegory of huge cinematic and historical importance never feels obsolete considering that a lot remains unchanged when it comes to politicians and their twisted ethics, and it is a delirious and audacious film of spellbinding imagery with no diverting subtlety. See more
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Cast & Crew

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Glauber Rocha

Director

Jardel Filho

Paulo Martins

Paulo Autran

Porfírio Diaz

José Lewgoy

Felipe Vieira

Paulo Gracindo

Júlio Fuentes

Glauce Rocha

Sara

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Land in Anguish

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Movie Info

Synopsis A Brazilian poet finds himself torn between the views of the man who raised him and those of a reformer.
Director
Glauber Rocha
Producer
Glauber Rocha, Zelito Viana
Screenwriter
Glauber Rocha
Production Co
Mapa Filmes, Difilm
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Brazilian Portuguese
Runtime
1h 46m
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