Brazil Film Series
Madame Satã
Directed by Karim Aïnouz, 2002
Born to slaves in the northeast, João Francisco dos Santos - better
known by his stage name of Madame Satã - moves to Rio and becomes a
bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, and father to seven
adopted children. A notorious gay performer who pushed social
boundaries in the volatile Rio of the 1930s and 1940s, Madame Satã
immerses himself, and comes to define, the sordid yet lively world of
the bohemian Lapa district. In Rio's underbelly, home of pimps,
prostitutes, and other misfits, director Karim Ainouz tells a story of
desperate dreams that transcend poverty and squalor.
Date: Tuesday, May 12
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public. Screened with subtitles in English.
For more information click on:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/madamesata
Cosponsored by the Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and the Harvard
Brazilian Organization (HBO)