A baron, a Rimbaud, and paradise on fire—Brazil's underground queen serves you 32 minutes of beautiful chaos.
A study that unwraps a paradisiac scenery, reaching the subjects of Brazility and its force in the change of habits, breaking taboos and bringing out a magical and original reality throught its characters.
Direction
Ignez channels Glauber Rocha's ghost with her own wild feminine eye.
Cinematography
Paradise looks rotting and gorgeous—Brazil as fever hallucination.
Acting
Ney Matogrosso born to play a decadent baron, obviously.
Director
Helena Ignez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Helena Ignez was the original muse of Cinema Novo; this is her late-career reclaiming of the movement's radical spirit.
Ney Matogrosso, legendary queer icon of Brazilian music, had never played a baron before—Ignez wrote it specifically to watch him destroy gendered power.
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