Zalman King makes a heck of a film and it is not available on DVD?!
Rae Dawn Chong is stunning in this film and the Brazilian cast members are phenomenal and yet it is not available?
Who decides that a film of such power, so moving, and so filled with humanity is not worth being for sale?
I feel very sad that this film is so overlooked.
Once you do see it you will not forget it.
Thanks for the recommendation. I just saw the "Boca" trailer on an old VHS, which looks fantastic, and now I'll seek "Boca" out. It looks very sensual, very enigmatic, very captivating.
shareIt is pure crap, my dear buddy. Watch it but do not tell me you were not warned...
Thanks for the heads-up on your thumbs-down, old friend.
shareHahahahaa...be afraid. Be VERY afraid (of the movie).
I still have yet to find this in any video store or clearance bin, and I hadn't even heard of it until I saw the trailer a few months ago. I suspect this film is easier to find in Brazil than the States.
It's a shame Rae Dawn Chong pretty much dropped off the radar the past few decades, emerging only to trash Oprah Winfrey.
I'm pretty sure I saw her at a restaurant while I was visiting Hollywood with a friend in the '90s. Gorgeous then, gorgeous now.
No, it was not released in Brazil, Warped. The movie is basically a ´film quilt´, if you will, with scenes of a remake of of an award-winning movie from Brazil plus new scenes with English-speaking actors added with a few moments of stock footage from WILD ORCHID.
It makes absolutely no sense and there is a major character that gets killed twice in the film (scenes from the Brazilian movie and via newer footage).
That sounds absolutely wretched. It has stock footage from the Mickey Rourke "Wild Orchid"?
The trailer made "Boca" look like one of those travelogue world music films in the spirit of "1 Giant Leap" and "Baraka." I guess that's pretty far off the mark, eh?
You betcha.
It as politically relevant as WILD ORCHID, with the difference that many scenes do not even match, cinematographtwhise -since they came from different sources, filmed many years apart and shot by various filmmakers.