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Tattoo

Country: Brazil, Language: Portugeuse, 110 mins

Original Title

Tatuagem
  • Director: Hilton Lacerda
  • Writer: Hilton Lacerda
  • Producer: Nara Aragão; João Vieira Jr.

CGiii Comment

This film would have benefited - greatly - from a severe pruning.

Most scenes are overly long and under-developed...what should have been the highlights - the theatrical performances - are distinctly under-whelming and fatally impotent.

Lack of structure, too many loose threads (and ends)...and, an inconclusive conclusion that will infuriate.

Mightily ambitious, maddeningly mis-managed.


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The(ir) Blurb...

1978. While the military coup that assaulted Brazil in 1964 starts to teeter, we follow a romance involving an 18 years old soldier and the cultural ringleader of an anarchist cabaret. Tattoo depicts the conflicts and reflections of a whole generation observed from a marginal perspective. Through the vantage point of the exception, the film elucidates the norm.

Cast & Characters

Jesuita Barbosa as Fininho;
Ariclenes Barroso as Gusmao;
Rodrigo Garcia as Paulete;
Johnny Hooker as Johnny Hooker;
Nash Laila;
Sylvia Prado as Deusa;
Silvio Restiffe as Professor Joubert;
Irandhir Santos as Clecio