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Udigrudi: Brazilian Marginal Cinema

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After the “Cinema Novo” changed the way Brazilian films were made,, there was a short lived movement in the late 60s throughout the 70s/80s called “udigrudi” (a burlesque way of saying “underground”), their endless use of dirtiness, bad taste & black humour to contextualise and represent political situation in a broader way.
Yes, some of the films represented borrowed elements from B films, Horror & sex comedies to obtain a wider audience but that allowed them to be more “transgressive” in a trashy way.

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