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Camus could have done the same thing in Bahia, his sixth film since Orpheus. Like Orpheus, Bahia takes a rather simple story, sets it in Brazil with beautiful camerawork, music and color. But the main story is a comedy, ending in marriage instead of death; it is complicated by subplots, colorful but distracting; and its climax does not have the heart-wrenching power of the Orpheus myth. In the end, Bahia is a very pretty, very joyous movie, but it is not a masterpiece...
...Bahia. At the Orson Welles Two, daily...
...course we're not. And nowhere are you more painfully aware of the fact than in reading this cover story The Magic of Brazil. Oh yes. Magic country. Beautiful country. And the excerpts printed here from Jim Metsner's Bahia portfolio of photos and recordings of traditional Brazilian culture and music help bring some of this 6,000 miles-away richness to the most insular Cambridge dweller...
...carried all the way across the Atlantic by storms that form off Africa, where the rust has been a problem for many years. Airborne spores have been found 2,000 feet above infected plants. Man himself is probably a carrier. A heavy outbreak in the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1967 may have begun when African delegates to an international cocoa conference inadvertently imported spores on their clothing...
...reason for his expansive mood is that he is really writing a love letter to Bahia. Formerly an earnest Communist, he turned out several stark novels (sample title: Sweat). Gabriela marked an abrupt mellowing in Amado's outlook. Now he romanticizes his Bahians into virile lovers, darkly sensual morenas, whores and neighbors, all larger than life. According to rumor, Dona Flor's friends are not the Bahian poor, but Amado's own circle of artists and intellectuals, whom he has costumed as peasants for a literary romp à clé. To that degree, Dona Flor...