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Lia Rossi

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Lia Rossi

Born November 16, 1945 · Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Died September 13, 2018 · aged 72

Lia Mônica Rossi (Niterói, November 16, 1945 - Curitiba, September 9, 2018) was a Brazilian actress. She started and ended her acting career early to dedicate herself to Design, becoming a PhD in Design with a study in the area of "Sertanejo Art Deco" in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, while she was a professor at the Universidade Federal of Campina Grande. She was the daughter of Re…

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Pretty But WickedPretty But Wicked · 1963
Pretty But Wicked
★ 7.01963
MovieThrillerDrama
A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves.
Hunger for LoveHunger for Love · 1968
Hunger for Love
★ 5.11968
MovieDrama
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive

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Hunger for LoveHunger for Love · 1968
Hunger for Love
★ 5.11968
MovieDrama
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive