Glauber Rocha’s final film defies every attempt at unequivocal classification or definition. “It’s not to be told, only to be seen”, he said. A torrential, hallucinatory anti-symphony, a terrifying cry of desperation, a destruction in progress. “The Age of the Earth is a great impossibility, a passage through world and time, a discovery of America on the opposite lane, a black Battleship Potemkin, or rather, it informs, full of gestures and rhythm, an extreme anti-classic — a spitting of blood in the face of the current cinema, dominated by sweetness.” (Pascal Bonitzer)
Courtisane will be presenting A Idade da Terra as Glauber Rocha had originally intended, leaving the order of its reels to be determined by the projectionist.
Portuguese spoken, English subtitles
