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Mango Yellow (2002)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:3
Rotten:2
Average Rating:5.6/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 14, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that... Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a local butcher, Wellington (Chico Díaz); Kika (Dira Paes), who is Wellington's overtly religious wife; and the flirty Lígia (Leona Cavalli) who works at a nearby bar. Their stories add up to an absorbing portrayal of life in a populous Brazilian favela, as the group struggles to make their way through life. [More]
Director: Claudio Assis
Director: Claudio Assis
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Reviews for Mango Yellow
For all the grimness and desperation on view in Mango Yellow, the characters emerge as robust, full-dimensional people in touch with their explosive feelings.
A glib evocation of urban malaise, flirting with situations of sexual loneliness ... without mustering up a single substantive notion.
there is so little invested in these characters that you don’t really care. unfortunately, MANGO YELLOW is just a pulpy morass - sometimes sweet, until you start chocking on the seeds
Assis stretches his characters up to and perhaps beyond the edge of reality. In their extremes, he suggests a malaise infecting Brazil.
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