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Bookmark this pageQueimada! (1968)
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Pontecorvo's memorable sequel to Battle of Algiers sees Brando in finely ambiguous form as the drunken, cynical Sir William Walker, a British agent sent to the Caribbean island of Queimada in the mid-1800s to stir up a native rebellion against the Portuguese sugar monopoly; ten years later, he is forced to return there to destroy the leader he himself created, in order to open up trade with Britain. Falling between epic adventure and political allegory, the film is occasionally clumsily structured and poorly focused; but Pontecorvo, working from a script by Franco Solinas, provides a sharp, provocative analysis of colonialism, full of telling irony, bravura set pieces, and compelling imagery, while Brando's stiff-lipped performance, emphasising his character's confused mixture of dignity and deceit, intelligence and evil, determination and disillusion, never allows the allegory to dominate the human content. A flawed but fascinating film.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
Cast: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez, Renato Salvatori, Norman Hill, Tom Lyons full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 132 mins
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