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WITH FAST, INTUITIVE brush strokes Carlos Diegues" Bye Bye Brazil captures the spirit of an entire subcontinent in the flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down into the teeming Amazon jungles and out to the polluted, industrial port cities and the awkward metropolis of Brasilia, the film follows its motley heroes feeling their way from the old to new. Diegues revels in the journey, sketching his way across the country recording the colors and complexities...
...BYE BYE BRAZIL...
...group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate - celebrate. Bye Bye Brazil does just that, setting a naturalistic tale to a bossa nova beat. It follows a tatty caravan of entertainers through the backwaters of Bahia, making music and mischief and the occasional friend or lover. The glittery magic means more to the actors than it ever will to the villagers...
...today's other semifinal, top-ranked UCLA, which had a bye in the first round, meets the University of North Carolina, which defeated Texas A&M, 1-0, yesterday. The winners of the semifinal matches go into tomorrow afternoon's 2:30 (Colorado time) finals, while the losers meet at 12:30 for third place...
Princeton is now also assured of the number one seed and more importantly, the first round bye that goes with it in this coming weekend's Ivy League tournament...