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Poster for Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção

Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção

1975 · 68 min

A warm, unhurried immersion into improvised verse and market-stall poetry, like sitting in on a lively cultural conversation.

Directed by
Tânia Quaresma
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Cego Oliveira, Pinto do Monteiro, Caju
Overview
Documentary about popular art manifestations in Northeast Brazil: the "cordel" literature (popular literature, small stories sold in markets); "repente", kind of musical challenge between two singers, who have to improvise the verses, in strict rhyme; and the interaction between these and local popular song.

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Directed by
Tânia Quaresma
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Cego Oliveira, Pinto do Monteiro, Caju
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • music
  • class
  • identity
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Tânia Quaresma
Written by
Tânia Quaresma
Starring
Cego Oliveira, Pinto do Monteiro, Caju, Castanha
Runtime
68 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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