Dzi Croquettes

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Dzi Croquettes

Brazil, 2009

Dzi Croquettes is a documentary co-directed by Raphael Alvarez and Tatiana Issa about the Croquettes, a groundbreaking, hugely influential queer performance troupe who carved out both rich personal lives and an internationally celebrated career against the backdrop of Brazil’s fall to fascism in the 1960s. Somewhat inspired by the Cockettes (the San Francisco-based queer performance collective from the late 1960s), the Croquettes blended Broadway, James Brown, bossa nova, old Hollywood musicals and queer innovation into a potent pushback on the bloodshed and political repression that was enveloping their country. Now largely lost to history, the troupe briefly spun the world on its glittering fingers.—guest programmer Ernest Hardy

DCP, color, in English, French and Portuguese with English subtitles, 110 min. Directors: Raphael Alvarez, Tatiana Issa.