In Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated film, Fernanda Torres plays a woman whose family is torn apart by Brazil’s military ...
In 1971, actor/director Woody Allen made “Bananas,” a movie lampooning a dictator’s takeover of the mythical South American country of San Marcos.
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.