Rodrigo Fonseca

Strange Paradise

The city of Rio de Janeiro in the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos contextualized by critic Rodrigo Fonseca.

Two men roam the night of Rio de Janeiro with two prostitutes in search of pleasure and violence.

Fernando is a loner who has a platonic passion for his neighbor. He invites her to watch a movie and she accepts. After the session, she says she doesn't want to see him anymore, and Fernando rebels.

At night, loving expectations are mixed with a simple flirtation. Two men meet at a mixed club. Dominated by desire, they go to the house of one of them for a crazy night of sex. But the night is just beginning.

Facing many problems, such as impaired hearing and speaking, abnormal bone formation and poverty, Brazilian black naïve artist Moacir lives in the National Park of Chapada dos Veadeiros, aloof and oblivious of outside world, and was discovered by director Walter Carvalho in the 1980s. He spends his days drawing marvellous works with his crayons, depicting human and fantastic beings, fauna, flora, his own inner visions, mystical themes and sex, with a trace of impressive primitivism and beauty. The film registers his daily life.

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

The exploratory voyages of man to Mars began in 1988. Most astronauts returned from space travel mad or with mystical delusions. As long as total secrecy was maintained, a select group of journalists spread across the planet were aware of these excursions, among them some journalists from the staff of O GLOBO. The astronauts reports are rare, but constant and delivered in two ways: audio reports and footage of the field trips, starring the brave Brazilian astronaut Erivaldo Mattüs. With the mysterious disappearance of our hero from Alagoas, the time has come for some of these reports to come to the attention of the public, through the infallible archives preserved by Gurcius Gewdner.