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Perfumed Ball
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Wikipedia article
'Perfumed Ball' is a 1996 Brazilian film directed by Lrio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas. Starring Duda Mamberti and Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, it shows the history of how Benjamin Abraho befriended Lampio, the leader of Cangao, and filmed his crimesa feat Brazilian army was not able to. It used footages took in 1936 for Abraho's 1959 film 'Lampio, o Rei do Cangao'.
Cast
*Duda Mamberti as Benjamin Abraho
*Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos as Lampio
*Aramis Trindade as lieutenant Lindalvo Rosas
*Chico Diaz as colonel Z de Zito
*Joffre Soares as Padre Ccero
*Cludio Mamberti as colonel Joo Librio
*Germano Haiut as Ademar Albuquerque
*Zuleica Ferreira as Maria Bonita
Reception
It entered the 1996 Festival de Braslia, where it won the Best Film, Best Newcomer Director, Best Art Direction (Ado Pinheiro), Best Supporting Actor (Aramis Trindade) awards, and shared the Critic's Choice Award with 'Um Cu de Estrelas'. It was released on Brazilian theatres on July 26, 1997. It was shown at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival, at the 1998 Chicago Latino Film Festival, and won the Coral Prize for Bestil Film Poster at the 19th Havana Film Festival. and is considered an important mark in Pernambuco's cinema industry, being one of the Pernambuco's first films to be acclaimed by international critics. For example, Deborah Young of 'Variety' said it "has a deliberately naive look that keeps it fresh, plus amusing dialogue and cast." She especially praised its "imaginative camera style" as it "uses a quasi-expressionist palette and camera angles".
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