The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga) is screening as part of the retrospective celebrating LC Barreto: 60 Years of Brazilian Film Production. The retrospective is screening at The Garden Cinema and the ICA from 25 April- 10 May, in partnership with Instituto Rouanet and the Embassy of Brazil in London.
An adaptation of João Guimarães Rosa’s Sagarana—a haunting short story collection about people of the sertão in the southeastern Brazil state of Minas Gerais—Roberto Santos’s Cinema Novo western follows the mythical “hero’s journey” of Augusto Matraga (Leonardo Villar), a violent farmer who is betrayed by his wife and left for dead. After he is rescued by a pair of farmers, Matraga devotes his life to contrition until the opportunity for revenge arrives. Featuring a superb score by Geraldo Vandré, The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga is a lyrical revenge film that foregrounds faith and spiritualism.
Restoration courtesy of L.C. Barreto Produções Cinematográficas.
