Madame Satã

Name: Madame Satã
Genre: Biography, Drama, Crime, Music
Released: July 9, 2003
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Flavio Bauraqui, Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo

2003

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: July 9, 2003 | Unrated

Starring: Flavio Bauraqui, Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo

Summary: Legendary criminal. Proud homosexual. Cabaret star. Passionate lover. Killer. Devoted father of seven adopted children. Saint or devil? Madame Satã. (Wellspring Media)

Director: Karim Ainouz

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Crime, Music

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 105 min

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J. Hoberman

It can feel a bit slight and, given the epic sweep of its subject's life, somewhat underplotted. But there's no denying the incendiary power of Ramos's performance -- he's present in nearly every scene. The movie is as much the story of his transformation into Madame Satã as it is João Francisco's. Read full review

Steven Rea

Whether or not Ainouz's stylish directorial debut gets to the "real" Madame Satã is beside the point, but as a celebration of a figure who fashioned his own identity from pieces of pop culture and street poetry, from song and fashion and fury, it's memorable. Read full review

Stephen Holden

It is a voluptuous, hot-blooded portrait of a social outcast, a black, homosexual criminal who in acting out his gaudiest Hollywood dreams, transcendently reinvented himself. Read full review

Premiere Peter Debruge

In this vibrant character study, newcomer Lázaro Ramos plays Francisco with an almost animal intensity. Read full review

David Sterritt

No-nonsense critiques of Brazil's endemic poverty and deeply flawed criminal-justice system lend substance to what otherwise might have seemed a flimsy and sensationalistic tale. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

One of those films that takes up a potentially fascinating subject only to fumble it. Read full review

William Arnold

Contains much abuse and brutality, an annoying celebratory air of pimp-chic and enough explicit gay sex scenes to qualify as (very tepid) soft-core porn. Read full review

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