The Devil Queen
(A Rainha Diaba)
António Carlos da Fontoura
- 1974
- Brazil
- Crime
- 1h40mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Exclusive
New 4K master
Rainha Diaba (The Devil Queen) is a truly strange underworld queen. Cross-dressing and glamorous, she rules the world of drugs and brothels with an iron fist. But beneath their servitude, her heterosexual henchmen dream of power as well. A coup d'état is brewing.
Emerging in Brazil in the late 1960s, Tropicalism, far from being limited to music, irrigated all the arts, including cinema. In contrast to Cinema Novo, it celebrated irreverence, the baroque, anarchy, and popular culture. Outrageously camp, The Devil Queen revisits the tropes of film noir through a queer lens, like a bloody carnival dynamiting the underworld's virile mythologies and homophobia. A cult masterpiece admired by Kleber Mendonça Filho, who contributed to its restoration, this incendiary film, disguised as genre cinema, seems decades ahead of many contemporary struggles.
Screenings
09/09 • 17h00 • Screen 300
Presented by Nils Bouaziz & Miliani Benzerfa
Credits
- With : Milton Gonçalves, Odete Lara. Stepan Nercessian, Nelson Xavier, Yara Cortes...
- Screenplay : António Carlos da Fontoura, Plínio Marcos
- Photography : José Medeiros
- Editing : Rafael Justo Valverde
- Music by : Guilherme Magalhães Vaz
- Production : Roberto Farias
