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High Art is a brésilien film of genre Drama directed by Walter Salles released in USA on 30 october 1991 with Peter Coyote

High Art (1991)

High Art
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Released in USA 30 october 1991
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginBresil
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Romance
Rating59% 2.99542.99542.99542.99542.9954

A Grande Arte (in English, "The Great Art"; US title: Exposure), is a 1991 Brazilian movie directed by Walter Salles Jr. and starring Peter Coyote. Loosely based on the book A Grande Arte by Brazilian Rubem Fonseca, it is one of the first theatrical works of Salles Jr. The cast includes both Brazilian and international stars such as Coyote, Tchéky Karyo and Miguel Angel Fuentes.

This film is considered to mark the "revival" of the Brazilian movie industry, which was until that year in a deep production crisis.

Synopsis

Peter Mandrake (Coyote), an American photographer in Brazil, is preparing an in loco essay for his new book, about the "Train Surfers" (groups of boys who court danger "surfing" on the roof of the trains) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. A local call girl he is friends with is murdered, and when the police can make no progress Mandrake decides to investigate himself. Subsequently, two hired thugs break into his apartment demanding a disk, and, when he doesn't produce it because he can't do so, they rape his girlfriend and stab him, leaving him to die. Vowing revenge, Mandrake enlists the help of Hermes (Karyo), a professional knife fighter who owes Mandrake a debt, to teach him the art of knife fighting. The obsession this develops into causes Mandrake's girlfriend to leave him, wanting the whole thing to simply go away, but Mandrake refuses to let go.

Actors

Peter Coyote

(Peter Mandrake)Tchéky Karyo

(Hermes, the Knife master)Amanda Pays

(Marie, the Archaeologist)Raul Cortez

(Lima Prado)Tonico Pereira

(Rafael)
And :
Paulo José
Giulia Gam
Cássia Kis
Mauro Mendonça
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