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"How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman"
1971
Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Inspiring a furor at Cannes, this black comedy is a brilliant satire on the Colonialist mentality and one of the high points of Brazil's Cinema Novo. A French explorer tries desperately to be accepted by his captors, an Amazon tribe that feeds him very well.  It is only at the end that the Frenchman realizes why.  French and Tupi with English subtitles.  80 minutes.