The Tortoise and the Tapir
The Tortoise and the Tapir
| 23 September 2016 (USA)
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The drought in Sao Paulo is the starting point of the journey. Uneasy with the images of empty reservoirs of hydrodams in southeastern Brazil, a filmmaker seeks to understand these pharaonic constructions, now built in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Among the Xingu, Tapajós and Ene rivers, echo the voices of riverines, indigenous people and fishermen and those affected by the arrival of so-called development. A boat movie and a reflection on the impact of our lifestyle.

Reviews
Inclubabu

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

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Ella-May O'Brien

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Cassandra

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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Jenni Devyn

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

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