Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business
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| Producer(s) | Helena Solberg, David Meyer |
| Director(s) | Helena Solberg |
| Release Date | 1995 |
| Runtime | 92 min |
| Format(s) | 35mm, video, DVD |
| Language(s) | English |
| Youth Media | no |
Film Description
This fascinating film skillfully combines reenactments, interviews with confidants and commentators, and footage from her many films to tell the haunting story of 1940's superstar Carmen Miranda. Charting Miranda's transformation from famed Brazilian singer to Hollywood's first Latina star to independent artist, award-winning Brazilian filmmaker Helena Solberg shows how Miranda's saga exemplifies contradictions in the relationship between Latin America and the United States that persist today. At the convergence of sexual politics, cultural colonialism, and one woman's life, this moving film powerfully explores the complex factors behind the image and life of the "Tutti-Frutti Woman", Carmen Miranda.
| Official Site | www.wmm.com |
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| Contact | info@wmm.com |
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