All down the royal road along which precious metals were transported to Rio in the past, cachaça, an alcohol brewed out of fermented cane sugar, became the convicts' favorite drink. Pedro Urano sets out along the same road and, from dive to bar, from ancient myth to project, introduces us to the thirsty hordes, to priestesses and toothless crones, all adepts of the same religion: cachaça. A walk through the imaginative world of a rural and mystical Brazil in a sort of waking dream from which you wake up intoxicated. "My film is a journey through a country's - Brazil's - time and space. It isn't a documentary on something particular. It's a film that travels via cachaça. Along a trail. A route. It's an attempt to make super-sensitive cinema."


Directed by Pedro Urano
Hypersensitive documentary, Brazil
2008, 98', beta sp, Engl. subtitles