Licínio Azevedo, dir. The Train of Salt and Sugar [Comboio de Sal e Açucar].
2018; Oxford University Press; Volume: 123; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ahr/rhy004
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
ResumoWhen the credits rolled on Licínio Azevedo’s latest film, The Train of Salt and Sugar (the title in Portuguese, Comboio de Sal e Açucar, offers consonance between the “s” and sibilant “ç”), one of my first thoughts was that it was made for Mozambicans, or at least for those who know more about the country than the average popcorn eater, even in the art houses where it might be likely to play. (I couldn’t find one, and managed to view the film only with a timely intervention from Ukbar Filmes, one of Azevedo’s production partners.) This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Good, because feature films set in Mozambique, such as Azevedo’s, are few; it has won several awards and is the country’s first film ever to be submitted for consideration for an Oscar. Bad, because a wider viewing audience will struggle to understand some of the film’s more interesting elements. How well it could work in a history course will turn around both the nature of the course and the purpose of using the film.
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