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Lost Continent (1955 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Continente Perduto' (a.k.a. 'Lost Continent' and 'Continent Perdu') is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.
Awards
It has received the following awards:
* 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize
* 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)
Legacy
French literary critic Roland Barthes dedicates an essay to the film in his semiological work, 'Mythologies'. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of exoticism, while also imposing their own Christian values onto the Buddhist traditions of the region.Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.
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