I loved to listen the interrogation of Bertolt Brecht by the Fascist McCarthyist "House Committee on Un-American Activities". However, I liked nothing else in this grimy and weird musical, based or inspired in Brecht's play Baal, with an obvious Brazilian element. It is quite poor as cinema, not being a good adaptation. It is still pure theatre, and not necessarily a good one. Its chaotic script makes it hard for spectator to keep his/her attention. Boring and hardly justifiable. Probably just a failed aesthetic experiment. Indeed, in the very beginning a character says that a story that is understood is a bad one. Well, I seriously disagree on that, and also on what Helena Ignez considered that was a good idea for a feature movie.
