João Francisco dos Santos / Madame Satã
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Nov 8, 2002 · Madame Satã: Directed by Karim Aïnouz. With Lázaro Ramos, Marcélia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques. Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Karim Aïnouz
- 2002-11-08
Madame Satã is a 2002 Brazilian–French drama film directed and co-written by Karim Aïnouz. Shot in the neighborhoods of Lapa, Glória, Paquetá, and Centro in the Rio de Janeiro city, [3] it tells the story of Madame Satã and premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. [4]
Aug 22, 2003 · "Madame Sata" is a portrait of Joao Francisco dos Santos, a flamboyant, fiercely proud drag queen with a hair-trigger temper, who became a legend in the clubs and slums and prisons of Brazil. Born about 1900, dead in 1976, he spent nearly 30 of those years in prison, 10 of them for murder.
In the 1930s slums of Rio de Janeiro, João Francisco dos Santos (Lázaro Ramos) is many things -- the son of black slaves, an ex-con who spent more than two decades in prison, a gangster, a ...
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- Lázaro Ramos
- Karim Aïnouz
- Biography, Drama
Film adaptation. João Francisco dos Santos's story was told in the film Madame Satã, directed by Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz and was released in 2002. Lázaro Ramos plays the titular lead. Cultural impact. Madame, a decades-old goth nightclub in São Paulo, was named after Madame Sata; References
by Karim Aïnouz. no english synopsis available more. With Lázaro Ramos, Marcélia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques, Emiliano Queiroz, Renata Sorrah. Information. Gallery. Press downloads.
Sep 1, 2022 · Madame Satã. Film Quarterly (2022) 76 (1): 45–53. FQ contributing editor Bruno Guaraná reviews the significance of the Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s groundbreaking Madame Satã on the occasion of the film’s 20 th anniversary. Guaraná argues that Madame Satã was a film ahead of its time.
