O Amor Natural . Newcity Chicago . 04-20-98

O Amor Natural

DIRECTED BY: Heddy Honigmann

REVIEWED: 04-20-98

Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigman makes an engaging talking-heads documentary about the erotic verse of Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, whose genital-heavy and lushly moist poems were collected in a book after his death. Poems in hand, Honigman hits the streets of Rio, asking a series of men and women of advanced years to read the Portuguese verse aloud and to compare the poet's experiences to their own. It's always fine to see grandmas who's raised eighteen children testify that she must have driven her husband to an early grave "from all that fucking"; one candid respondent tells the camera, "We're old, not dead." Still, the subtitles often seem creakier than the language being spoken aloud. 76m.

--Ray Pride

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