Perfumed Ball
7.2 /10 1 Votes7.2
Duration | 7/10 Genre Drama Country Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Lirio FerreiraPaulo Caldas Release date 1996 (1996) (Festival de Brasilia)July 26, 1997 (1997-07-26) Writer Paulo Caldas, Lirio Ferreira, Hilton Lacerda Directors Lirio Ferreira, Paulo Caldas Music director Chico Science, Fred Zero Quatro, Lucio Maia, Paulo Rafael, Sergio Siba Veloso Screenplay Lirio Ferreira, Paulo Caldas, Hilton Lacerda Cast Duda Mamberti (Benjamin Abrahão), (Lampião), Aramis Trindade (Tenente Lindalvo Rosas), (Padre Cícero), Chico Diaz (Cel. João Libório), Germano Haiut (Ademar Albuquerque)Similar movies The Bandit , Meu Nome é Lampião , O Cangaceiro , O Último Dia de Lampião |
Perfumed Ball (Portuguese: Baile Perfumado) is a 1996 Brazilian film directed by Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas. Starring Duda Mamberti and Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, it shows the history of how Benjamin Abrahão befriended Lampião, the leader of Cangaço, and filmed his crimes—a feat Brazilian army was not able to. It used footages took in 1936 for Abrahão's 1959 film Lampião, o Rei do Cangaço.
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Reception
It entered the 1996 Festival de Brasília, where it won the Best Film, Best Newcomer Director, Best Art Direction (Adão Pinheiro), Best Supporting Actor (Aramis Trindade) awards, and shared the Critic's Choice Award with Um Céu de Estrelas. It was released on Brazilian theatres on July 26, 1997. It was shown at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival, at the 1998 Chicago Latino Film Festival, and won the Coral Prize for Bestil Film Poster at the 19th Havana Film Festival. and is considered an important mark in Pernambuco's cinema industry, being one of the Pernambuco's first films to be acclaimed by international critics. For example, Deborah Young of Variety said it "has a deliberately naive look that keeps it fresh, plus amusing dialogue and cast." She especially praised its "imaginative camera style" as it "uses a quasi-expressionist palette and camera angles".
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