Sambólico (Finland, 1986)

Drag on stage A successful Finnish composer is resting in Rio de Janeiro. On the Copacabana beach a beautiful girl picks him up, and then disappears. Later they meet on the night streets, and they move through the carnival atmosphere and through several night clubs; one of them has a drag cabaret. Wanderley Gomes, Ivan Martins, and Breno Moroni are drag performers.

But the whole thing is surreal, and the drag singer, who started off with a Latin five o'clock shadow suddenly has a beard and moustache. The girl's pimp is chasing them, but they evade him, and make passionate love on the deserted beach.


Hairy arms But then he wakes up, still on the beach; was the whole thing just a dream? He returns to his hotel, and there in the lift is the girl, with the man. And although the girl is 100% raw female sex, suddenly her arms and hands grow very masculine, and her legs are hairy.

I'm afraid I don't understand allegory, so I've no idea what all this means.

It's a short film, 35 minutes, with just about the longest credit list I've ever seen.

HF July 2002


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