A sophisticated French filmmaker relocates an ancient Greek myth in Rio de Janeiro during the fever pitch of that city's annual carnival convulsions. Not a one hundred percent true image of urban slum culture in Brazil. The confetti color, the voluptuous motion, and the incessant music (Luis Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim) are stimulating, nonetheless. Directed by Marcel Camus. (1959) — Duncan Shepherd
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