Eduardo Coutinho’s Man Marked For Death/ Twenty Years Later

In the early 1960s, Eduardo Coutinho began shooting a film about the murder of Brazilian trade unionist João Pedro Teixeira. Twenty years later, Coutinho brought the surviving footage back to Pernambuco, where most of the film’s cast still lived. Tracing two decades of personal and political histor...

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Published in:Bomb (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2017-10 (141)
Main Author: Noah, Will
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Coutinho, Eduardo
Documentary films
Motion pictures
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Summary:In the early 1960s, Eduardo Coutinho began shooting a film about the murder of Brazilian trade unionist João Pedro Teixeira. Twenty years later, Coutinho brought the surviving footage back to Pernambuco, where most of the film’s cast still lived. Tracing two decades of personal and political histories surrounding the unfinished production through extensive interviews, Coutinho created a much richer and more open-ended film than the one he originally set out to make. A Man Marked for Death/Twenty Years Later (1985) is a documentary that braids conversation and reenactment in order to draw its subjects into active participation in its creation. The original footage—hard-chiseled social realism of a striking if somewhat dated flavor—suggests that, had the film been finished as conceived, it might have been a competent but forgettable footnote in the history of Brazilian cinema.
ISSN:0743-3204
2328-2894