The Dare

O Desafio treats two intellectuals and carries on a critical discussion that is pretty personal. It is a self-criticism of the Brazilian intellectual who lives ‘in peace’ with the national poverty and who feels like everything is coming apart when he sees that his illusions of change add up to nothing. […] This is a film that was shot in fifteen days with a very low budget, but it was made so that it would make a great impact. And it would have had a great impact at that right moment if the censorship had not blocked it. The climate evoked in the film is that which I myself lived through in the days that followed the overthrow of Goulart. —Paulo Cesar Saraceni