Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
Fernando
Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.
Enrico Di Branco
Sandra , viúva de um milionário devasso, vai ao litoral recuperar sua casa de praia tomada por grileiros. Na estrada dá carona à um casal de hippies extemporâneos. Auxiliada pelo rábula Dr. Carvalho , Sandra recupera a propriedade e convida o casal de caronas a assumir a função de caseiros. À partir daí o casal vai gradativamente se envolvendo, física e emocionalmente, com uma galeria de personagens insólitos, incluindo a própria viúva.
Client who can't have his butt touched
Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute - and she does it. After that, all her wishes and longings will curl up into a fascinating vortex.
O poeta
"Um dos primeiros filmes brasileiros a refletir sobre os anos da contra-cultura e seus reflexos no comportamento da sua geração, de maneira personalíssima um tributo ao amigo e poeta Orlando Parolini (morto em 1991)."
As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of “inventive cinema” without a plot in the classical sense. Ferreira mixes situations of everyday life in the streets of São Paulo with scenes from classics of film history, which he filmed from television or from a projection with his Super 8 camera. The author as a vampire sucks from various sources – not only in cinema, but also in poetry and music – and creates a portrait of his time.
