Mango Yellow Amarelo Manga (2003) Recife Brazil WOW somewhat OK movie. some shocking scenes. This film expands the director (Assis) first short movie Texas Hotel; Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground: a butcher married with
an evangelical woman, a necrophilia in love with a bar owner, a very gay/queen hotel cook and many others. the story is bizarre by most standards but I enjoyed it. there is some plain old exploitative stuff here also the blood and gutting of cows for meat and necrophilia. Most interesting is how different life can be in Brazil. Its really a black comedy. 20/20 filmsite states: The colour of Brazilian mangoes is a deliciously smooth yellow, the fragrance of the juicy fruit emanating from the peel; it's a beautiful colour, used in the Brazilian flag, used to represent life, the mineral wealth of the land and the colour of the sun.
"Mango Yellow (though, yellow is the colour of mangoes, but also of decaying corpses, infected, rotten teeth, disease and malaise. It's a colour that represents the fetid stench of decay and turmoil that exists in the favelas of Recife, a beautiful coastal city on the easternmost point of Brazil." Be careful you might be offended by what you see in this movie. Not a five star movie but I give it a full three stars. maybe 3 1/2.
May 25, 2010
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