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Madame Sata First feature ... Philip Brooks, Laurent Bocahut, Dominique Welinski. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), May 19, 2002. Running time: 105 MIN.
Posted in Film Madame Sata by Quintin January 24, 2003 August 25, 2021. ... Madame Sata fights back, becoming a role model rather than an object of pity. This is an important film.
Karim Ainouz’s “Madame Sata,” which opens Friday at the Nuart, is a dynamic portrait of Joao Francisco dos Santos (1900-76), a legendary figure in Rio de Janeiro’s Bohemian neighborhood of ...
Espetáculo 'Satã, um show para Madame' estreia no Sesc Tijuca Monólogo ambientado na musicalidade da Lapa dos anos 30 conta histórias sobre o polêmico personagem ...
The Brazilian film "Madame Sata" is the true story of a legendary Rio pimp, thug and drag queen named Joao Francisco, who took his nickname from the campy 1930 Cecil B. DeMille movie, "Madam Satan." ...
MADAME SATA [] Disappointing drag queen biopic from Brazil. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Running time: 105 minutes. Not rated (explicit sexual content). At the Film Forum, Houston Street w… ...
The film is based on the real person João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976), better known by the name of Madame Satã. He was a 1.78 meter black man weighing 88 kilos of muscle. In turn a bandit, a ...
“I choose to be a queen but that doesn’t make me less of a man,” says Joao Francisco dos Santos, the feisty protagonist of “Madame Sata.” First feature director Karim Ainouz’s vivid ...
The film is based on the real person João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976), better known by the name of Madame Satã. He was a 1.78 meter black man weighing 88 kilos of muscle. In turn a bandit, a ...