They will learn! They will!
I will dominate this land.
I will put these hysterical
traditions in order!
By force,
by the "the love of force"!
By hell's universal harmony,
we will be a civilisation!
What does your death prove?
The triumph of beauty and justice!
Synopsys
Like any South American nation of the 60s, the fictional El Dorado is a land yearning for genuine reforms. Unfortunately it is beset by a chimera composed of religious fanaticism, crass nationalism and an indifferent educated class. Paolo Martins (Jardel Filho) is a poet, a former supporter of senator Porfirio Diaz (Paolo Autran), a right-wing religious fundamentalist. However through his contact with Sara, a communist, Paolo changes his political convictions and swerves towards Felipe Viera (Jose Lewgoy), a liberal governor who is the country’s sole bulwark against totalitarianism. Politics in Eldorado becomes enmeshed in the purview of the media and business class, giving way to an internecine arena scattered with violence and paper thin loyalties.
Earth Entranced (1966)
From Brazil Comes Film About Poet
By ROGER GREENSPUN
Published: May 15, 1970, NYT
THE young Brazilian director Glauber Rocha made "Earth Entranced" in 1967, shortly before "Antonio das Mortes," which recntly had its premiere here, and some years after "Black God, White Devil," shown in the New York Film Festivals. I have now seen enough of Rocha's work to know that I dislike it for its own sake, and not for the unfamiliarity of its locale and people or for the ritual obsessiveness of its themes.
"Earth Entranced" deals with radicalization of a youngish poet (Jardel Filho) who serves two political masters, one a corrupt reactionary (Paulo Autran) and the other a corrupt liberal (José Lewgoy), before taking arms and quixotically asserting power to the people. The people resemble the peasantry of "Antonio das Mortes"—downtrodden and poeticized—and the poet resembles the hired killer,
For the most part, "Earth Entranced" takes place among the rich and powerful. To balance the stylized miseries of the underprivileged there are stylized orgies for the overindulged, and to match the political education of the protagonist there are the (and elaborately symbolic) political ambitions of the men he sometimes serves.
To a degree, the failure of "Earth Entranced" results from its unwillingness to accept the fictional logic of its melodramatic plot. But to a greater degree, that failure rests in every scene, in the development of every idea, in every decision about placing and moving the camera and composing each individual shot.
Where you can sense the movie going wrong most significantly is not so much in the gratuitous complexity of the larger moments (political campaigns, strategic crises, peasant protests, etc—including the lugubrious orgies), as in the rhetorical emptiness of the smaller moments. When the poet and his woman (Clauce Rocha) embrace, the result is not so much participation in a mood as the demonstration of a mood — exemplary and unreal.
"Earth Entranced" is easier to look at than the other Glauber Rocha films I have seen. It is full of Wellesian deep-focus investigations of dark and ornate ineriors, and, indeed, it seems concerned with developing a program of visual perspectives to express the devious intricacy of its political plotters.
But it is too fully aware that all the world's a stage and that the dreams and ambitions of men are a form of theater.
At one point, while the poet and his grandeur-crazed reactionary teacher and leader grapple for physical supremacy on a symbolic staircase, the soundtrack offers us both the "Esulate" from Act I of "Otello" and the clatter of revolutionary rifles firing — which I guess is a way of having your culture and destroying it too. But, typically& it says too much and feels too little to make the notion count.
EARTH ENTRANCED, directed and written by Glauber Rocha; director of photography, Luiz Carlos Barreto; music by Sergio Ricardo; Mapa (Rio de Janeiro) production company; released by New Yorker Films. At the New Yorker Theater. Running time: 110 minutes. (Not submitted at this time to the Motion Picture Association of America's Production Code and Rating Administration for rating as to audience suitabilty.)
Paulo Martins . . . . . Jardel Filho
Don Porfirio Diaz . . . . . Paulo Autran
Don Felipe Vieira . . . . . Jose Lewgoy
Sara . . . . . Glauce Rocha
Don Julio Fuentes . . . . . Paulo Gracindo
Silvia . . . . . Danuza Leao
Earth Entranced - Glauber Rocha - End
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