Product Details

• Actors: Carlos Drummond De Andrade
• Directors: Heddy Honigmann
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Portuguese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
• DVD Release Date: October 23, 2007
• Run Time: 76 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000U95NAS
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #89,486 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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More remarkable than the poetry itself is the excited reaction it inspires in the interviewees. That such a documentary could be made in the United States is unthinkable. --New York Press

Product Description
O AMOR NATURAL is a documentary film about the erotic poetry of one of the greatest Latin American poets of the 20th century, the Brazilian CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE (1902-1987). Visiting the beaches and streets of Rio de Janeiro, filmmaker Heddy Honigmann approaches elderly men and women and asks them to read some of Drummond's explicit verses ("Love guide my verse, and as it guides/wed, soul and desire, member and vulva."), triggering reminiscences the likes of which younger souls rarely hear from their grandparents.

An ode to physical love, through humor and solemnity, through bluntness and tenderness; through melancholy, O AMOR NATURAL is a virile and comforting film with moving, funny, taboo breaking narratives about one of the wonders of creation.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great erotic poems from Carlos Drummond de Andrade, February 22, 2008

By	ondaalta (brazil) - See all my reviews

This documentary brings a very original approach to Carlos Drummond de Andrade's erotic poetry book "O AMOR NATURAL". Heddy Honigmann's film allow us to apreciate how much the poet is still loved by brazilian people. Many of the interviewed readers are anonymous citizens from the streets of Rio de Janeiro, there are also some talented and well known actors from Brazil, like Maria Clara Machado, Sérgio Vioti and Joana Fomm. The documentary itself isn't quite exact (Carlos Drummond de Andrade did want to publish O Amor Natural but he died before). Subtitle translations sucks with many errors, but you won't miss the real meaning. It is a very good movie to watch more than once, and you'll laugh a lot with good poetry.
Unfortunately producer Peter Van Hustee never payed copyrights for Carlos Drummond de Andrade's work. Try a preview in YouTube...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Return to the basics, January 26, 2009

By	Jordano Quaglia "Swimming Coach" (CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Drumond de Andrade in his private-erotic times created this set of poems that deal with love and which are told by elderly people who remind us that we are getting older, nonetheless our dreams and desires are alive and we are still in search of eternal love. Great doc-movie.