Hunger for Love
1968 · 73 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 150 VOTES · DIR. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Overview
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive
Dialogue Timeline — 471 lines
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00:00:29 Can I see it?
00:04:57 By ourselves... - together...
00:06:43 Be calm... calm down...
00:11:31 We can bring some of the pieces from the collection my father left.
00:13:17 - Free enterprise, free labour... - Job, job...
00:15:25 Hello.
00:17:52 The house isnÕt mine, nor the island.
00:19:14 Listen darling, I like you a lot.
00:21:20 any latin american... miserable, unlearned, dirty...
00:22:43 The doctor say there is...
00:24:11 HavenÕt you ever sunbathed completly naked?
00:27:37 [No, no, the cure is not difficult]
00:31:39 Look at him... he likes to swim, to live You donÕt... you hide from the sun
00:38:54 Do you want to come?
00:41:15 LotÕs of islands, lotÕs of secret passages.
00:45:35 - YouÕre not born to kill. - You rather stealing.
00:48:07 Good night everyone! Wake up everybody!
00:50:28 You donÕt have to bother with the rent, with clothes, food...
00:51:51 I want to see the negros revolted, the workers, the poor, the oppressed ones...
00:57:16 The costumes! ItÕs carnival!
01:01:59 Come down... come...
01:04:52 If he could actually listen to that he would call you Ògaœcha, gaœcha...Ó
01:08:48 ÒKept hold on to the flag, of the lady of the churchÓ
01:11:18 [...of the army is to make the revolution. It's made by the people, the great mass...]