The French film critic Georges Sadoul called it “an unknown masterpiece” and once flew all the way to Brazil, in vain, in hopes of seeing a complete version. Orson Welles, in Brazil in the early 1940s to make a movie of his own, did view it in its entirety and pronounced the experience “fabulous.” More recently, both David Bowie and Caetano Veloso have also promoted it.

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