Macunaíma

I don't know too much about Brazilian filmmaker Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's best known work Macunaíma (1969) before watching it; what an amazing feat this film is. Though based on a 1928 novel by Mario de Andrade that is widely acknowledged as an avant-garde classic, a prototype of magic realism, the celluloid version of Macunaíma benefits plenty from the director's sixties-infused update (apparently there are many areas where the two narratives differ),the film a full flowering of anarchic black humor, unrelenting satire, cannibalism, basically a load of demented folk legends melded with biting political protest (obvious in the references made to the 1964 military coup in Brazil). Plus the fact that Macunaíma is so ridiculously funny, haven't laughed so hard at the cinemas for a long while.