Udigrudi Fridays – Film Series:
O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (The Red Light Bandit), 1968. Dir. Rogério Sganzerla
Hunter College MFA Building
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor Flex Space
December 15, 7:30PM
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O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (The Red Light Bandit, 1968) is inspired by the crimes of the namesake Brazilian criminal, who conducted a string of breaking-and-entries, assaults, and homicides in Brazil during the 1960s. Directed by Rógerio Sganzerla, the film reimagines the bandit as a modern robin hood in this jazzy neo-noir police-thriller. Perhaps the most well-known of all Brazilian Cinema Marginal films, the story emblematically conflates criminality and romanticism in an anti-elite gesture.
Screening in Portuguese with English subtitles.
