(Sao Paulo) Brazilian filmmaker and columnist Arnaldo Jabor, director of award-winning films at international festivals such as Any nudity will be punished Where tell me about lovedied on Tuesday at the age of 81, following a stroke, his family announced.
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“Jabor turned into a star, my son lost his father and Brazil lost a great Brazilian,” his wife Suzana Villas Boas wrote on Instagram.
Born in Rio de Janeiro on December 12, 1940, Arnaldo Jabor was part of the “Cinema Novo” (new cinema) movement, the new wave of Brazilian cinema, which began in the 1960s.
He notably directed the emblematic actress Sonia Braga in I love youpresented at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un certain regard category, in 1981.
Jabor also saw two of his feature films enter the official selection at Cannes, Pindoramain 1971, and tell me about lovefor which Fernanda Torres received the Best Actress Award, in 1986.
His film Any nudity will be punishedinspired by a famous play by playwright Nelson Rodrigues, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin festival in 1973.
Arnaldo Jabor was also known in Brazil for his talents as an acerbic columnist, on television, on TV Globo, or in the columns of the daily newspaper. O Globo.
“In his films as in his texts, he sought to observe Brazilian society, understand its paradoxes and criticize its hypocrisies”, can we read in a tribute published Tuesday by O Globo.
Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, the Brazilian filmmaker shot the film in Sao Paulo Meu ultimo desejo (my last desire), which has yet to be released in theaters.