Release Date: 2009
Not Yet Rated|1 hr 50 min
Plot Summary
A theater group challenges a violent dictatorship.
Cast: Norma Bengell, Pedro Cardoso, Miguel Falabella, Gilberto Gil, Elke Maravilha, Liza Minnelli, Marília Pêra, Cláudia Raia
Director: Tatiana Issa, Raphael Alvarez
Genres: Biography, Musical, Documentary, Drama
Essentially a queer-cabaret-cum-performance-art-spectacle, the Croquettes went from local phenomenon to international sensation, opening up sexual mores in then-repressive Brazil and wowing Paris before their AIDS-fueled downfall. show more
What's easy to appreciate in the documentary, however, is the way it reassembles the Dzi Croquettes' trajectory without polishing off its jagged edges. It's through their brilliance and their flaws that they become muses. show more
Although the film recounts an intriguing slice of social history, it is too haphazard and repetitive to be truly memorable. show more
