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'Tain: An Adventure in the Amazon' is a Brazilian movie from 2000, of the infant-juvenile and adventure genre directed by Tnia Lamarca and Srgio Bloch.

The film spawned a sequel and prequel, 'Tain 2: A New Amazon Adventure' and 'Tain 3: The Origin', both released in 2004 and 2011.

Plot



The film tells the adventures of a young Indian orphan who lives with her grandfather, the wise old Tig, in a corner of the Rio Negro in the Amazon. With Tig, she learns the legends and stories of her people, living intimately with the forest and its animals.

Little by little, Tain becomes a guardian of the forest and manages to save a little monkey from falling into the clutches of a trafficker. Nicknamed Cat, the new little friend becomes her companion after her grandfather's death.

Protected by an amulet left by Tig, Tain continues the fight in defense of the jungle.

Pursued by the trafficker, the guardian will stop in a small village where a biologist and her son Joninho live, who is following her mother in her scientific researches.

The agreement between them becomes difficult and Tain decides to leave the village, but Joninho, who was already planning an "escape" to play a trick on his mother, follows her and now will have to learn from her how to survive in the forest.

Cast



*Eunice Baa Tain

*Caio Romei Joninho

*Ruy Polanah V Tig

*Jairo Mattos Rudi

*Branca Camargo Isabel

*Alexandre Zacchia Shoba

*Luciana Rigueira Tikiri

*Charles Paraventi Boca

*Marcos Apolo Biriba

*Betty Erthal Miss Meg

*Luiz Carlos Tourinho Mr. Smith

*Nadine Voullimevoz Cat, the monkey (voice)

*Guilherme Briggs Ludo, the parrot (voice)

*Alfonso Segura Aida, the monkey (voice)

*Jaqueline Arashida - Yemanjac

Release and reception



Release and awards

The film was awarded at the 2000 Christmas Film Festival in the categories best film and best photography (Marcelo Corpanni). In 2001, it also won the prize for best fiction film at the Rio Film Festival and at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and the prize for best photography direction at the Brazilian Film Festival in Miami. 'Tain - Uma Aventura na Amaznia' was launched in cinemas by Art Films and MAM distributors on January 12, 2001, in one hundred theaters, and was watched by 853,210 spectators, collecting 3,054,492 reais. In 2005, it was shown at the Marseille Festival, France.

Critical Reception

Rubens Ewald Filho praised the film saying that it is a "[a]dequate youth adventure" and also the "right choice of Miss Eunice Baa for the title role", and noted that it is "[r]eplet with ecological messages (it looks like a Tarzan ['sic'] film: every two minutes they close in some exotic animal)". However, he commented that "[it] is well capable of being better accepted abroad, where they are more concerned with the theme and the survival of our Amazon than here. Writing for the Cineclick website, Celso Sabadin said that the feature "has everything to please children and youth audiences, without annoying adults. The film is agile, dynamic, well assembled and brings beautiful images of the Amazon, very well photographed by Marcelo Corpanni". He also praised the dialogues, calling them "fun", and the protagonist's performance, which gave "more veracity and credibility to the story".

References




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