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A Terceira Margem do Rio (1993)
After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive
Updated May 26 2020
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Cast
Chico Diaz
Vanja Orico
Gilson Moura
Laura Lustosa
Maria Ribeiro
Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva
Ilya São Paulo
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Crew
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Director
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Screenplay
Ney Santanna
Producer
Milton Nascimento
Original Music Composer
Fernando Duarte
Director of Photography
Guimarães Rosa
Novel
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