Tainá: An Adventure in the Amazon (Portuguese: Tainá - Uma Aventura na Amazônia) is a 2000 Brazilian adventure film directed by Tânia Lamarca and Sérgio Bloch.
| Tainá: An Adventure in the Amazon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tânia Lamarca Sérgio Bloch |
| Written by | Cláudia Levay Reinaldo Moraes |
| Produced by | M. A. Marcondes Pedro Rovai |
| Starring | Eunice Baía Caio Romei Alexandre Zacchia Branca Camargo Betty Erthal Luiz Carlos Tourinho Jairo Mattos Ruy Polanah |
| Music by | Luiz Avellar |
Production companies | Tietê Produções Cinematográficas M. A. Marcondes Art Films |
| Distributed by | Europa Filmes |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Box office | R$3.054.492[2] |
The film spawned a sequel and prequel, Tainá 2: A New Amazon Adventure and Tainá 3: The Origin, both released in 2004 and 2011.
Plot
editThe film tells the adventures of a young Indian orphan who lives with her grandfather, the wise old Tigê, in a corner of the Rio Negro in the Amazon. With Tigê, she learns the legends and stories of her people, living intimately with the forest and its animals.
Little by little, Tainá becomes a guardian of the forest and manages to save a little monkey from falling into the clutches of a trafficker. Nicknamed Catú, the new little friend becomes her companion after her grandfather's death.
Protected by an amulet left by Tigê, Tainá continues the fight in defense of the jungle.
Pursued by the trafficker, the guardian will stop in a small village where a biologist and her son Joninho live, who is following her mother in her scientific researches.
The agreement between them becomes difficult and Tainá decides to leave the village, but Joninho, who was already planning an "escape" to play a trick on his mother, follows her and now will have to learn from her how to survive in the forest.
Cast
edit- Eunice Baía — Tainá
- Caio Romei — Joninho
- Ruy Polanah — Vô Tigê
- Jairo Mattos — Rudi
- Branca Camargo — Isabel
- Alexandre Zacchia — Shoba
- Luciana Rigueira — Tikiri
- Charles Paraventi — Boca
- Marcos Apolo — Biriba
- Betty Erthal — Miss Meg
- Luiz Carlos Tourinho — Mr. Smith
- Nadine Voullièmevoz — Catú, the monkey (voice)[3]
- Guilherme Briggs — Ludo, the parrot (voice)[3]
- Alfonso Segura — Aida, the monkey (voice)[3]
- Jaqueline Arashida - Yemanjac
Release and reception
editRelease and awards
editThe film was awarded at the 2000 Christmas Film Festival in the categories best film and best photography (Marcelo Corpanni). In 2001, it also won the prize for best fiction film at the Rio Film Festival and at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and the prize for best photography direction at the Brazilian Film Festival in Miami.[3][4][5] Tainá - Uma Aventura na Amazônia was launched in cinemas by Art Films and MAM distributors on January 12, 2001, in one hundred theaters, and was watched by 853,210 spectators, collecting 3,054,492 reais.[2][6] In 2005, it was shown at the Marseille Festival, France.[7]
Critical reception
editRubens Ewald Filho praised the film saying that it is a "[a]dequate youth adventure" and also the "right choice of Miss Eunice Baía for the title role", and noted that it is "[r]eplet with ecological messages (it looks like a Tarzan [sic] film: every two minutes they close in some exotic animal)". However, he commented that "[it] is well capable of being better accepted abroad, where they are more concerned with the theme and the survival of our Amazon than here".[8] Writing for the Cineclick website, Celso Sabadin said that the feature "has everything to please children and youth audiences, without annoying adults. The film is agile, dynamic, well assembled and brings beautiful images of the Amazon, very well photographed by Marcelo Corpanni". He also praised the dialogues, calling them "fun", and the protagonist's performance, which gave "more veracity and credibility to the story".[9]
References
edit- ^ ""Tainá" estréia no Norte, Nordeste e Rio com histórica ecológica" [“Tainá” debuts in the North, Northeast and Rio with ecological history]. Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 12 January 2001. Archived from the original on 22 June 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ a b "Filmes Brasileiros Lançados - 1995 a 2012" (PDF). Ancine (in Brazilian Portuguese). p. 29. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Taina - Uma Aventura na Amazônia". Cinemateca Brasileira (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Tainá - Uma Aventura na Amazônia: Curiosidades". AdoroCinema (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Sessão especial de cinema será apresentada em quilombo". Governo do Estado de São Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 14 July 2013.[dead link]
- ^ "'Tainá' chega a 800 mil espectadores em nove meses de exibição". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 30 October 2001. Retrieved 14 July 2013.[dead link]
- ^ "Ancine coordena mostra de filmes brasileiros no ano do Brasil na França (Rio de Janeiro, 12/05/2005)". Ancine (in Brazilian Portuguese). 11 May 2005. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ Filho, Rubens Ewald. "Tainá, uma Aventura na Amazônia". Universo Online (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ Sabadin, Celso (22 May 2000). "Crítica Tainá, uma Aventura na Amazônia". Cineclick (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 14 July 2013.
