This 35mm presentation, which is also being screened on May 12th (full details here), is part of the The Spirit of '68 season at BFI Southbank. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Part epic, part folklore, part political allegory, Glauber Rocha's 1970 reflection on the role played by legend, myth, and tradition in Brazil's social and political realities is a complex and powerful drama. Antonio (hired by the government but acting partly out of religious conviction) tracks down and kills the members of a guerrilla band, only to realize after killing the last rebel in ritualistic combat that his fight is beside the dispossessed country folk against the landowners. Rocha makes Antonio very much a contemporary figure (even equating him with Che Guevara), and uses folk songs, rhymed verse, and lush color to fashion a stunning call to arms for the Brazilians and one of the most memorable films of the Cinema Novo.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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