Saturday, November 04, 2006

[Politics] How to Be a Filmmaker in Brazil

One Brazilian film actor/director has recently caused an uproar of sorts with his statement (stolen from Jean-Paul Sartre's play "The Dirty Hands") that "one doesn't make politics without getting one's hands dirty", issued apropos the recent scandals involving President da Silva's Workers' Party. The uproar is justified, but it is important to decode the statement; its real meaning is "in Brazil one doesn't make cinema without getting one's nose dirty".

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