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Tropicalia Film + Afterparty - ¡Vamos! Festival 2013

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Sun 7 July 2013 // 19:30 / Cinema

FILM AT 7.30PM: TROPICALIA (2012, Dir Marcelo Machada, 87 mins, DVD, Portuguese/English)

A new documentary that delves into the ‘explosion’ of the Tropicalia movement in Brazil in the late ‘60s. Featuring stunning archive footage of the charismatic figureheads including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil amongst many others, it’s a wonderfully evocative and inspiring snapshot of the movement and its wider impact and influence around the world.

REVIEWS OF THE FILM

"Impressive" - Sight & Sound
"Documentary of the month" - UNCUT 
‘The Tropicália movement had straw beds, paddling pools and even its own parrots. What a great way to fight the Brazilian dictatorship’ - THE GUARDIAN
‘Tropicália wasn’t a style or a movement as much as an atmosphere, a rush of youthful, cosmopolitan, liberationist optimism that broke over Brazil like a sun shower and soaked into everything: art, music, fashion, film, theater, literature’ - NEW YORK TIMES 

+ INTRODUCTION

Introduction and post film discussion with Patricia Oliart and Loiana Leal Pavlichenko of Newcastle University.

+ LANGUAGE CAFE + LIVE MUSIC!

6pm Pre-film Portuguese language café with Ana Assuncao and Loiana Leal Pavlichenko (Free)

9.30pm Afterparty with ‘Brazil’ DJ Set from JD Twitch (Optimo) & NEW ADDITION TO THE PROGRAMME TULIPA RUIZ concert. Click here for more information

For more information and to book tickets online see the ¡VAMOS! Festival website.Part of ¡VAMOS! Festival 2013

Supported by Creative England and the British Film Institute