12th New York Film Festival.

IP Nº 001418

The Night of Scarecrow, wich takes place on the barren yet baroque plains of northeastern Brazil, can be described as a folk legend, a social document, a passion play, a musical tragi-comedy, a bossa-nova "Jesus Christ Superstar. But no description quite does justice to Sergio Ricardo's mixture of Dali, Debray and DeMille. The clash of gorgeus images with revolucionary ideals has rarely been sucessful - and never more exhilarating. After all, what was the last radical film that had you humming its tunes on the way out Brazil Cannes Festival.