Como era gostoso o meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman). 1972. Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

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Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman). 1971. Brazil. Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Image courtesy of Photofest

Como era gostoso o meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman). 1972. Brazil. Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. In Portuguese; English subtitles. 84 min.

With Ana Maria Magalhães, Arduíno Colasanti, José Kleber. Loosely based on German explorer Hans Staden’s 1557 chronicle Brazil: The True History of the Wild, Naked, Fierce, Man-Eating People, and interwoven with other 16th-century texts, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman is a captivity narrative about a European who lives among a cannibalistic tribe until the film’s "consuming" finale. Highly attuned to the ironies of his parent material, Pereira looks back to a fascinating episode in the history of colonization, revising the received understanding of the era while also commenting slyly upon the political crises of his own day. 35mm.

This film accompanies Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Politics and Passion.

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Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Sun, Apr 12, 2015, 2:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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