AFS Doc Tour Presents O AMOR NATURAL

The Austin Film Society is pleased to present O AMOR NATURAL by Heddy Honigmann on Wednesday, February 10 at 7 PM at The Alamo Downtown (320 E. 6th Street) for our February documentary presentation.

The erotic poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a household name in Brazil, remained unpublished during his lifetime, as he feared they would be deemed pornographic. In this celebration of his poetry and sensual vision, elderly residents of Rio read his poems and comment on their graphic, voluptuous imagery with tremendous candor and enthusiasm. “We’re old. We’re not dead!” interjects one reader, as memories of stolen pleasures and bittersweet melancholy unfold. Says filmmaker Heddy Honigmann: “The poems sometimes functioned as a kind of corkscrew, sometimes as a glass of water, sometimes as a glass of brandy.”

Tickets are $4 for AFS members and students with a valid ID / $6 for the general public. Tickets may be purchased at austinfilm.org

The AFS Documentary Tour is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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