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Mango Yellow
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCláudio Assis
Written byHilton Lacerda
Produced byCláudio Assis
Paulo Sacramento
StarringMatheus Nachtergaele
Jonas Bloch
Dira Paes
Chico Diaz
Leona Cavalli
CinematographyWalter Carvalho
Edited byPaulo Sacramento
Music byJorge du Peixe
Lúcio Maia
Production
companies		Parabólica Brasil
Olhos de Cão
Labocine
Quanta
Global Media Properties
Distributed byRioFilme
Release dates
Running time100 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
BudgetR$450,000 ($191,865)
Box officeR$769,750 ($328,195)

Mango Yellow (Template:Lang-pt) is a 2002 Brazilian drama film directed by Cláudio Assis. It stars Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Dira Paes, Chico Diaz, and Leona Cavalli as working-class people who live amorous encounters and mismatches around a bar and a hotel. The directorial debut of Assis, it is partially inspired by his previous short film. Its filming took place in the suburbs of Pernambuco, with a low budget production.

It received several awards in various film festivals, both in Brazil and abroad, including Festival de Brasília and Berlin Film Festival. Mango Yellow has been generally praised by domestic reviewers for its character, soundtrack, cinematography, and the way it depicts Brazil. However, the same did not occured when it was reviewed by English-speaking critics. Although received some praise, most of them give negative responses to the film.

Plot

The film opens with Lígia (Cavalli), a barmaid who never has sex with her customers depiste being a tease to attempts, complaining about her grueling routine. One man who try to do it is Isaac, a necrophile who feels pleasure in shooting on corpses and taste their bloods. He lives at the Texas Hotel, where Dunga (Nachtergaele), a male homossexual, works as a handyman there. Dunga feels attraction for Wellington (Díaz), a butcher who provides the meat of the hotel. Wellington, however, is married to Kika (Paes), a woman he has the pleasure to praise her virtues as an evangelical Christian. Despite of this, Wellington cheats his wife with Dayse (Alves); Dayse is tired of being Wellington's second choice, and reveals to Dunga that she will meet him to say it.

Dunga anonymously reveals to Kika that she is being betrayed as he wants to break their marriage to have Wellington available to him. Kika finds Wellington and Dayse together, injures both and does not return to Wellington's home. Wellington goes to seek solace at the Texas Hotel, but Dunga cannot take him to his room as Wellington is scared by the funeral of the recently-died owner. Meanwhile, Isaac is expelled from the cafe after attempting to seize Lígia. He returns and, after worthless shooting, Isaac is seen driving his car when he meets with Kika; Isaac and Kika have an intercourse. At the end, Lígia complains about her routine that starts again, while Kika decides to paint her hair with the yellow tone that is the reason Isaac is fascinated for Lígia.

Cast

Background and production

Cláudio Assis have worked as a production director in the 1996 film Perfumed Ball only prior to Mango Yellow, and directed two short films. One of them, Texas Hotel, served as an inspiration to Mango Yellow; O Estado de S. Paulo said Texas Hotel is "a kind of 'privileged test' of Mango Yellow", while TV Guide commented it is an "expanded version of his 1999 short film "Hotel Texas."expanded version of his 1999 short film "Hotel Texas." The production cost R$450,000 (about $191,865), which Assis said to be proud about since Brazilian films cost an average of R$3 million (about $1,279,701) at the time. The filming took place in the suburbs of the cities of Recife and Olinda, both in the state of Pernambuco, and lasted between September and November, 2001.

Reception

At the 35th Festival de Brasília, Mango Yellow was elected the best film by the official jury, popular jury and critics, also receiving the awards of Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Actor (Díaz). Assis won the Best Debut Film Award at the 25th Havana Film Festival, where the film won the Best Cinematography Award. The latter award was also given to it at the 7th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami. Mango Yellow won all awards possible for a featue film at the 13th Cine Ceará—Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, Best Actor for Nachtergaele, and Best Actress for Paes—, also receiving a special prize for its costume design. With 13 nominations, it only won the Best Cinematography Award at the 2004 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro. At the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival, it won the award of the Best Film screened in the Forum section, while received the Grand Prix at the 15th Toulouse Latin America Film Festival.

Mango Yello grossed R$769,750 (about $328,195), with a viewership of 129,021 people in the sixteen Brazilian theaters in which it was released, being the 12th largest audience for a domestic film in 2003. It received generally postive critics in Brazil. The characters, the actor performances, and the soundtrack were praised by IstoÉ Gente's Domingas Person and Diário de Pernambuco's Luciana Veras; Veras commended the characters as they avoid stereotypes. Its cinematography also received positive response by Person and Veras, as well as by Marcelo Hessel from Omelete and Alcino Leite Netto from Folha de S. Paulo, with latter saying that it "is not decorative and spare". The way it depicts the Brazilian reality was praised by Hessel and Veras, with both of them commenting that City of God is "cosmeticized" if compared to Mango Yellow, and the former stating it is "a testimony of documentary and sociological value". Cinepop critic Andrea Don declared it is a film that the viewer will hate or love, without middle ground, concluding that "you will not leave the cinema's room likewise you entered."

On other hand, Mango Yellow received mixed reviews from English-speaking reviewers. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 60% rating based on five reviews, with an average score of 5.6/10. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 40 (indicating "mixed or average reviews") based on five reviews. A The Village Voice reviewer described the characters as "babbling caricatures" and the film as a "shallow Brazilian trifle". Although praised its cinematography, Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club said it is "a film that has nothing to say". Variety's Deborah Young and TV Guide's Ken Fox also praised Carvalho's work; the former cited Nachtergaele as the film "standout", while the latter stressed how it is a "awdry stuff ... but it's glorious to look at." Writing for The New York Times, Stephen Holden declared the characters are "robust, full-dimensional people", and praised how its "surreal flavor" highlights the film's message.

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