Carmen Miranda
The night of colors of Brazil
Film
Archive 2005
La Cinémathèque de la Danse
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© Carmen Miranda. Illustration : D.R ©
The films of Carmen Miranda, the « samba queen » with the fruit-and-flower hairdo, highlight this evening of Brazilian culture. Another featured subject: Pierre Verger, a Swiss traveller who arrived in Brazil in 1946, and ended up filming the candomble rituals of African and Brazilian Orishas...Throw in capoeira, carnaval and those popular Brazilian comedies known as chanchadas, and you are halfway to Ipanema.