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How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

Play trailer Poster for How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman Released Jun 1, 1971 1h 24m Comedy Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
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A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a claim to Brazil before the Portuguese colonize it, is held by a hostile tribe that assumes he is Portuguese. The tribe, allied with the French, is looking to avenge the murder of one of their members by eating a Portuguese soldier during a feast. Although the Frenchman is incorporated into village life, and even given a wife by the tribe, his fate hangs in the balance.

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Fernando F. Croce Slant Magazine Jaundiced cultural allegory dressed up as anthropological re-creation. Rated: 3/4 May 28, 2007 Full Review Shane Burridge rec.arts.movies.reviews The film-makers should have taken a hearty bite out of the Spanish while they were at it Sep 24, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member It draws more attention for the cheesy makeup and how everyone appears fully naked onscreen considering the time it was made (during Brazilian dictatorship with its filthy censorship), but apart from that the film is more a curious history lesson made in a welcome naturalistic style. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Very strange film works well as a curiosity, but not much more. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member 86% "In this country no Governor, no Bishop or other authority could please God, Our Lord for the evil is much impregnated in the customs."-Father Nobrega Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't care. I don't think it's that good...despite all the nudity. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member NOT a 70's "cannibal horror" film, but a fascinating period piece about a 16th century Frenchman, captured by Brazilian natives who mistake him for one their (and his) Portuguese enemies. Very well done. Touches of humor, but feels almost like an ethnography. Attention to detail, to the point that most of the dialogue is in the native Tupi language. Well worth a look. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Reminded me a bit of EL TOPO, as someone below mentions, but far less interesting. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a claim to Brazil before the Portuguese colonize it, is held by a hostile tribe that assumes he is Portuguese. The tribe, allied with the French, is looking to avenge the murder of one of their members by eating a Portuguese soldier during a feast. Although the Frenchman is incorporated into village life, and even given a wife by the tribe, his fate hangs in the balance.
Director
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Producer
Luiz Carlos Barreto, K.M. Eckstein, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, César Thedim, Dib Lufti
Screenwriter
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Distributor
New Yorker Films
Production Co
Condor Films
Genre
Comedy, Adventure
Original Language
Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 1, 1971, Wide
Runtime
1h 24m