Cinema Novo

Cinema Novo

2016 · 93 min · ★ 6.7 · Documentary, History

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

Directed by Eryk Rocha · Written by Juan Posada

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