PARAGUAY WAR / GUERRA DO PARAGUAI
(Luiz Rosemberg Filho, Brazil, 2016, 80 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
U.S. Premiere!

The last feature film by the late Brazilian director Luiz Rosemberg Filho, a key figure of the Cinema Marginal movement whose work has been little seen in the United States, is a lyrical allegory about a bloody war, in which past and present, and barbarism and art, collide.

The film follows a soldier coming home after the Paraguay War—the infamous conflict fought between 1864-1870 between the South American nation against the triple alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, that marked one of the bloodiest episodes in South American history—who runs into a contemporary theater troupe. Shot in black and white, Rosemberg Filho’s is an astonishing tour de force on the persistence of life past destructive masculinity.

Thursday, December 12, 7:15pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York City
Please Note: Tickets are only sold the same day of the show.

Presented as part of 'If You Can Screen it There: Premiering Contemporary Latin American Cinema.'

For more information visit:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/51617

Watch the (unsubtitled) trailer:
(The film will be screened with English subtitles)