Saturday 16 June 2007, 19.00

Glauber Rocha claimed that ‘Brazil is a carnival that must be destroyed’. Earth Entranced takes this notion to heart in its stunning assault on the corruption of the Brazilian bourgeois ruling class in the wake of the country's 1964 coup. Focused on the conflict between a populist governor and a right-wing dictator set in the fictional country of Eldorado, the film’s delirious camerawork and operatic scope brilliantly convey Brazil’s ‘permanent state of madness’.

Glauber Rocha, Brazil 1967, 106 min

 

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour exhibition