How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como Era Gostoso O Meu Francês) (1971) Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos Sunday - April 21 - 3:00 p.m. This delicious black comedy, set in colonial Paraty outside Rio de Janeiro, tells the story of a French adventurer who is captured by members of the Tupinambá tribe and readied for the community’s ritual consumption. The tribe treats their prisoner better than you might think. They give him food and a wife, who happily teaches him the ways of the community. As he plays with his new mate, he considers how to avoid his prescribed fate as the main course of the ceremonial tribal dinner. Originally banned in Brazil due to excessive nudity, the film remains a slyly entertaining masterwork of Brazilian Cinema Novo. (35mm. 84 min. Not Rated.) Memoirs of Prison (Memórias do Cárcere) (1984) Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos Sunday - April 21 - 6:30 p.m. In this adaptation of his posthumous memoir, leftist intellectual Graciliano Ramos recounts his imprisonment in the 1930s by the right-wing regime of Getúlio Vargas. The film is the second adaptation by Pereira dos Santos of a work by Ramos, who also wrote Vidas Secas. Ramos’ portrayal of his imprisonment is minimalist and subdued, as he transforms from ideological theorist (and suspected Communist) to documentarian of his fellow prisoners. The prisoners serve as a metaphor for Brazilian society, and though they do not know what he is writing in the prison, they want to be in his book. Pereira dos Santos uses a straightforward realism to give the film, like the writing of Ramos, the power to document history. (35mm. 185min. Not Rated.) 44 Nelson Pereira dos Santos Tickets: (812) 855-1103