This gets plaudits for its naturalism, though it all looks pretty bogus to me and not in any way transporting. In fact it was fairly dull, the story of a westerner held captive by cannibals is almost a cliché since Melville's Typee. The twist is that the man is French but the Amazonian natives think he's Portuguese and therefore fit for the pot. They keep him for a long while as an honoured captive, native wife thrown in, pending sacrifice.
Production quality is amateurish and the director would better have employed a more existential approach - someone is about to get eaten, after all. The Frenchman's attitude to his situation is comical. There's nothing stopping him escaping, but he lives there quite happily up until and including the day of the banquet in which he is plat du jour.
What's really missing is atmosphere. It's all shot under bright sunlight. And given the decision to sensationalise cannibalism in the title it's easy to suppose that all the nudity is done disingenuously for lurid effect - in any case, reviewers can't help going on about it. While apt for the time and place, it is a distraction to the modern viewer and the filmmakers might somehow have cut down on the number of flapping willies (the women have tiny g-strings). Well, that's a moot point, but the overall feel is hippy-ish rather than realistic.
It's a bit different but nothing special.
Production quality is amateurish and the director would better have employed a more existential approach - someone is about to get eaten, after all. The Frenchman's attitude to his situation is comical. There's nothing stopping him escaping, but he lives there quite happily up until and including the day of the banquet in which he is plat du jour.
What's really missing is atmosphere. It's all shot under bright sunlight. And given the decision to sensationalise cannibalism in the title it's easy to suppose that all the nudity is done disingenuously for lurid effect - in any case, reviewers can't help going on about it. While apt for the time and place, it is a distraction to the modern viewer and the filmmakers might somehow have cut down on the number of flapping willies (the women have tiny g-strings). Well, that's a moot point, but the overall feel is hippy-ish rather than realistic.
It's a bit different but nothing special.