''Brave New Land'' ( pt, Brava Gente Brasileira) is a 2000 Brazilian
drama film
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written and directed by
Lúcia Murat. The title comes from a line from the chorus refrain written by journalist
Evaristo da Veiga for the
Brazilian Independence Anthem. It depicts the conflicted relationship between Portuguese, Spanish and Indigenous in the 18th century.
Cast
*
Diogo Infante as Diogo de Castro e Albuquerque
*
Floriano Peixoto
Floriano Vieira Peixoto ( 30 April 1839 – 29 June 1895), born in Ipioca (today a district of the city of Maceió in the State of Alagoas), nicknamed the "Iron Marshal", was a Brazilian soldier and politician, a veteran of the Paraguay ...
as Captain Pedro
*
Luciana Rigueira as Ánote
*
Leonardo Villar
Leonardo Villar (25 July 1923 – 3 July 2020) was a Brazilian actor. He became internationally known for his performance as Zé do Burro in Anselmo Duarte's '' O Pagador de Promessas'', the only Brazilian film so far awarded a Palme d'Or at t ...
as Commander
* Buza Ferraz as Antônio
* Murilo Grossi as Alfonso
* Sérgio Mamberti as priest
Production
In the late 1980s, Murat knew the history about the conflict between Indigenous people and military in the Forte Coimbra, a fort of the
Western Military Command in the
Pantanal
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of
Mato Grosso do Sul.
[ And, in 1997, when a producer asked her about the planning of any film she remembered the story.][ She first visited the Kadiweu people in April 1997, and the shooting took place in seven weeks in a set in ]Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul
Bonito is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. As of 2020 its population was 22,190, and it has an area of .
History
The area that would become the center of the Municipality of Bonito started with the land of th ...
in 1999.[
]
Reception
It was first screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival
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and '' O Estado de S. Paulo'' reported it received praise from critics.[ However, Derek Elley from '']Variety
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'' criticized it for its clichés, calling it "solidly conventional behind its verismo front". Elley said "Budgetary constraints hamper what little drama is happening onscreen, and only actor to make much of an impression is Leonardo Villar as the fort's gnarled, pragmatic commander."Festival de Brasília
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.[
]
References
External links
*{{IMDb title, id=0263156, title=Brave New Land
2000 drama films
2000 films
Brazilian drama films
Films directed by Lúcia Murat
Films set in Brazil
Films set in the 18th century
Indigenous cinema in Latin America
2000s Portuguese-language films