Original Babenco, Hector Movie Posters

Hector Babenco movie posters document the Argentine-Brazilian director who brought Latin American social realism to international attention — the Argentine-Brazilian director who brought Latin American social realism to international attention with a body of work remarkable for its combination of compassion, formal intelligence, and unflinching engagement with poverty, imprisonment, and marginalisation.

Pixote (1980) — following a street child through Brazil's criminal underworld with the participation of actual street children — remains one of the most powerful and disturbing documents of social injustice in cinema history. Shot with the immediacy of a documentary and the compositional intelligence of a great narrative film, it brought Babenco international recognition and established him as one of world cinema's essential voices.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) — a Brazilian-American co-production — brought the work to Hollywood's attention: William Hurt won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance as a homosexual prisoner sharing a cell with a political detainee (Raul Julia), and Babenco became the first Latin American director nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The theatrical campaign is a study in the challenge of selling a film of extraordinary delicacy and moral complexity. Later work included Ironweed (1987) with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Original theatrical paper from Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman is now increasingly difficult to source.

Buy original theatrical prints from this essential Latin American filmmaker — a director whose work bridges the Brazilian social-realist tradition and the Hollywood prestige drama with unusual integrity.

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