daadad.blogg.se - Auto da Compadecida by Ariano Suassuna

A Dog's Will (Portuguese: O Auto da Compadecida, literally "The Compassionate Woman's Play", the woman being the Virgin Mary) is a 2000 Brazilian fantasy comedy film directed by Guel Arraes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Adriana Falcão and João Falcão.

18 years later a second adaptation appeared, almost in the 90s, directed by Roberto Farias and starring great comedians that we have seen, resulting in the film Os Trapalhões no Auto da Compadecida. It was first adapted for cinema in the year the man went to the moon, 1969, and was titled: A Compadecida, in this work had the great Antônio Fagundes in the role of Chico. Especially for the priest ”.Īuto da Compadecida has had other adaptations besides the more famous 2000s one. Who doesn’t remember Chicó and his famous slogan: “I don’t know, I just know it was like that” What about the end of the film when Rosinha hands a piece of bread to a man in the heat of a road and says, “Jesus sometimes disguises himself as a beggar to test the goodness of men”? He also has a context of the faith and sins of man in: “Killing a priest is very unlucky. In lines of text, dialogues gain in importance because of their striking characters.

But it’s not just a question of references here, since there are even traces of Decamerão, of Boccaccio, in the film. One of the merits of the script, supervised by Suassuna, is finding a cheerful and relaxed way to portray a difficult life for many in the suggestive magic and creativity of Brazilian culture. While watching this beautiful film, we laughed, we were moved, we got to know better a whole culture of a creative northeast, the origins of the cord, the baroque traces, the religious importance and the devotions. There are also the great Denise Fraga and Diogo Vilela who form a couple, she is a passionate housewife and the baker of the region. We have Selton Mello and Matheus Nachtergaele, in the lead roles we have Luis Mello de Diabo, Fernanda Montenegro de Compadecida (Our Lady herself), Marco Nanini as Severino (the disturbed Cangaceiro), Lima Duarte and Rogério Cardoso in religious roles, Paulo Goulart in the role of Major Antônio Morais, Rosinha’s father, played by Virginia Cavendish. Great artists put on stage the beloved characters, Agildo Ribeiro, for example, was one of the great performers of João Grilo on stage. Part of the text, previously transformed into a play, had its first exhibition in 1956 in Recife, in the form of a car, in three acts.