Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures

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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures.jpg
Directed by Marcelo Gomes
Written by Karim Aïnouz
Paulo Caldas
Marcelo Gomes
Ranulpho Gomes
Produced byKarim Aïnouz
Starring João Miguel
Peter Ketnath
CinematographyMauro Pinheiro Jr.
Edited byKaren Harley
Music byTomás Alves de Souza
Production
company
Rec Produtores Associados
Distributed byImovision
Release dates
  • 17 May 2005 (2005-05-17)(Cannes)
  • 11 November 2005 (2005-11-11)(Brazil)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
BudgetR$2.1 million [1]
Box officeR$882,373 [2]

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Portuguese : Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is a 2005 Brazilian film directed and co-written by Marcelo Gomes. It was Brazil's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. [3] [4] It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. [5]

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Plot synopsis

German national Johann is traveling in rural northern Brazil in the 1940s, selling the new drug aspirin by screening a short promotional film for isolated villagers, many of whom have never seen a motion picture. He meets drifter Ranulpho, who agrees to work for Johann in exchange for a ride to Rio de Janeiro. They have many encounters and misadventures on their journey, eventually selling out Johann's entire stock of aspirin to a wealthy brothel owner.

When Brazil formally declares war on Germany in August, 1942, Johann is ordered to either return to his homeland or turn himself into a Brazilian concentration camp until the end of hostilities. Not wishing to participate in the European war, Johann paints over the advertising logos on the company truck, splits the sales money with Ranulpho, and smuggles himself onto a train with other workers who are supporting the Brazilian-American alliance by working on rubber plantations in the Amazonian jungle.

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Reception

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures has an approval rating of 86% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 6.8/10. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Arantes, Silvana (21 September 2006). ""Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus" disputa vaga em Oscar". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). Grupo Folha. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Filmes Brasileiros Lançados - 1995 a 2012" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Ancine. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Sneider, Jeff (2006-10-19). "Oscar race counts 61 countries". Variety . Archived from the original on 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
  4. ↑ "Foreign language Oscar nominees announced". The New Zealand Herald . 2007-01-17. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
  5. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
  6. ↑ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cinema-asprin-and-vultures


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