The Island of Prohibited Pleasures

A Ilha dos Prazeres Proibidos

Carlos Reichenbach

Ana Medeiros is a State agent who is sent on a mission to a paradisiacal island with the purpose of eliminating a group of revolutionaries who took refuge there. Pretending to be a journalist, she manages to infiltrate herself and takes out two people—a Wilhelm Reich theoretician and an anarchist. By getting involved with the community, however, Ana undergoes a transformation as she discovers the revolutionary role of pleasure. Produced during the Brazilian military dictatorship, but escaping censorship by resorting to the pornochanchada genre, the film is a harsh critic on the political authorities of the time.

Producer Sara Silveira will be present in the screening. She co-founded with Carlos Reichenbach the production company Dezenove Som e Imagens.

Sessions

08 Oct — 21:30 / 96’
Cinemateca Portuguesa Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Carlos Reichenbach

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One Screening Only
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