Azyllo Muito Louco (1970)

Comedy

In another literary adaptation – this time Machado de Assis’ novella O Alienista – and his first color film, dos Santos unleashes an extravagant, maddening excoriation of Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1970s. As usual, the director exploits all cinematic constituents in his palette – a radically intrusive and discordant soundtrack, non sequitur editing, exaggerated camera angles and all manner of carnivalesque pageantry – to illustrate the tale of a doctor/priest on a mission to discover truth through the study of madness. The population of his asylum grows as his definition of sanity fluctuates until it finally threatens to incorporate the entire town. The film’s own irrational reversals and allegorical codes gleefully mock the arbitrariness of authoritarianism in all its varied guises. -Harvard Film Archive

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Runtime: 79 mins Rating: 5.0

Cast

Nelson Dantas

Sacristão

Roberto Ferreira

Isabel Ribeiro

D. Evarista

Nildo Parente

Simão Bacamarte

Luiz Carlos Lacerda

Arduíno Colassanti

Porfírio

Ana Maria Magalhães

Prima do Costa

Leila Diniz

Eudóxia

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Crew

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Director

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Screenplay

Luiz Carlos Barreto

Producer

Rafael Justo Valverde

Editor

Dib Lutfi

Director of Photography

Roberto Farias

Producer

César Thedim

Producer

Machado de Assis

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Azyllo Muito Louco (1970)

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