A film that is both surprising and therefore controversial, but also important. Considered by many critics to be the finest film by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos, if not one of the finest films in Brazilian cinema, Glauber Rocha believes that ‘Nelson Pereira Dos Santos is starting Cinema Novo all over again with Fome de amor’.
More than its subject (two men and two women on a small island near Rio), the film is remarkable for its climate.
Nelson Pereira Dos Santos said: ‘It seems to me that this is the most personal of my films. It was not an expression of what I might have thought, but of what I really felt”. In its apparent disorder, this highly sensual film is fundamentally Brazilian.
