Moon Over Parador Streaming
Jeudi, septembre 9th, 2010 |
Moon Over Parador Streaming.
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This clever film is a comedy sleeper; Paul Mazursky gathers a heavenly cast and puts over an silly comedy about an actor impersonating a banana republic dictator. Yes, we’ve seen laughable films about dodgey Latin American countries rife with ex-Nazis and goofy leaders, and yes, impersonation gags are nothing unique in comedy films, but this has a positive freshness that makes this a minor gem.
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The film is shot in Minais Gerais, Brazil, and the slightly crumbling colonial architecture is the perfect background for the fictional Republic of Parador. Richard Dreyfuss is almost too believable as a second-rate actor Jack Noah. In fact, he is often overshadowed by the unhurried and highly talented Raul Julia, who plays the power-mad, slightly homicidal genius slow Parador’s dictatorship. When Il Presidente croaks, Dreyfuss is given the role of a lifetime, and the added perk of Madonna Mendez (Sonia Braga) as his lithesome mistress.
The only flaw with the film is that Dreyfuss is not as laughable as Julia, Braga or even Mazursky, who fills in as Il Presidente’s redoutable Mama, a bit fraction in toddle that was conjured up with other actresses who were to cameo in the role bailed out. Sadly, he’s overshadowed by these immense talents, and that makes his vital allotment, the buffoon-like Alfonse Simms, President, a touch less humorous that it ought to be. And some of the cameos (Charo, Sammy Davis, Jr., Polly Holliday) could have been bigger. They were almost a destroy.
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A fun fact: The first dictator, the “precise” Simms, is played by Dreyfuss’ brother Lorin, rather than doing a doppleganger scene with a stand-in for Richard Dreyfuss in both roles.
A fun comedy, and one that is sizable to have in the DVD library. Best film ever made? No, but a trustworthy solid movie that is worth seeing from time to time when you need a agreeable laugh.
When I first saw this movie over a decade ago, I was so delighted to peer that Hollywood decided to film a movie about the political charade many Latin American republics of that era were interested in. Except for a few democracies, Latin American was quiet a mecca for dictators and coup d’etat’s.
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Parador (must me a hybrid of the countries “Paraguay” and “Ecuador” since Parador in Spanish means “inn”) is a country in a deep crisis. Their dictator has died mysteriously and the oligarchy that really rules the country is looking for someone to lift his residence. Enter Richard Dreyfuss, a struggling Recent York actor who gets the role of a lifetime playing a third-world despot. At first he finds it funny, but later realizes that the charade he is performing is really hurting the people he is supposed to rule.
Filmed in Minas Gerais, Brazil, “Moon Over Parador” features that talents of some of Latin America’s best actors. Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia and Brazilian actress Sonia Braga both retract the point to as the president’s advisor and mistress respectively. I was glad to gawk Spanish singer Charo in a diminutive role as one of the president’s maids and the ambiance of a limited Latin American republic is perfectly captured by director Paul Mazurksy (”Down and Out in Beverly Hills”) .
This is a film that deserves to be on DVD. It is one of the 1980’s hidden gems, and hopefully Universal will release it in the DVD format it rightfully deserves to be on. “Moon Over Parador” outranks Woody Allen’s “Bananas” as the best spoof of Latin American politics ever made. It’s a comedic masterpiece.
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