O Amor Natural

A Film by Heddy Honigmann

O AMOR NATURAL is a documentary film about the erotic poetry of one of the greatest Latin American poets of the 20th century, the Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987). The erotic poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a household name in Brazil, remained unpublished during his lifetime, as he feared they would be deemed pornographic.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." "An idiosyncratic homage to Brazil's most beloved poet. A lovely film!"Village Voice "Approaching literature not through critical analysis but through its effect on everyday people - in this case, elderly Brazilians gamely reciting the poet's voluptuous verses - this warm, simple film uncovers a rich vein of ageless, grassroots sensuality and joie de vivre." Variety "A touching fresco of art, memory and desire."Chicago Tribune "A deceptively simple approach to the erotic poetry of Brazil's cherished laureate. As surprising as it is moving."LA Weekly
Jury Prize, 1997 Montreal Film Festival Golden Gate Award, 1997 San Francisco International Film Festival

A documentary on Brazil's relationship with the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and to their own sexuality. Director: Heddy Honigmann Writers: Carlos Drummond de Andrade (poems), Heddy Honigmann Country:Netherlands Language:Portuguese Release Date:5 December 1996 (Netherlands) Filming Locations:Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This is a documentary style film in which a TV interviewer questions numerous Brasilian characters about love and sex, more particularly about the erotic poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade not published until after his death. Each of the colourful and often amusing characters reads a poem from a paperback copy of his work and each praises the content of the verses. We too are caught up in this erotic adventure as the interviewer takes us from house to house and we get a glimpse of the earthiness of Brasilian life as it is lived in and around Rio. The verses are read very well but somewhat hesitantly when 8o-year olds struggle without their reading glasses. The poet uses few but well-chosen words in an attempt to describe the orgasmic feelings of two people in love. It is said that Carlos Drummond was a shy man but one can scarcely believe that from his colourful descriptions of the sex act. The film is completely absorbing throughout and the language though very direct is acceptable in the context of the film.

Heddy Honigmann
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Heddy Honigmann 1 October 1951 (age 59) Lima, Peru Dutch Film director Website heddy-honigmann.nl

Heddy Honigmann (1951) is a Peruvian-born Dutch director of fictional and documentary films. Heddy Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru to Polish Jewish immigrants.[1] She has spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands,[1] having become a Dutch citizen.[2] Most of her films have been Dutch productions, but have been made in a variety of languages. In 2003 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a retrospective

showing of a number of her films.[1] Honigmann won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[3] In November 2011, the Centre Pompidou in Paris will hold a retrospective showing all of her films.[4]

Filmography
Documentaries Ghatak (1990) (short film) Metaal en melancholie/Metal and Melancholy (1994) O Amor Natural (1996) Het ondergrondse orkest/The Underground Orchestra (1998) 2 minuten stilte a.u.b. (1998) Crazy (1999) Priv (2000) Good Husband, Dear Son (2001) Dame la mano/Give Me Your Hand (2004) Forever (2006)

Fiction De deur van het huis (1985) Hersenschimmen/Mindshadows (1988) Uw mening graag/Your Opinion, Please (1989) Goodbye/Tot ziens (1995) De juiste maat (1998) (TV)

Hanna lacht (2000) (short film)

El olvido (2008)

Awards

Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2000) for Crazy[5] Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2006) for Forever[5]

References
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^ a b c Nancy Ramsey (25 September 2003). "Giving Voice to Life's Emotion: A Documentarian's Calling". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/movies/giving-voice-to-life-s-emotion-adocumentarian-s-calling.html?src=pm. Retrieved 14 January 2011. 2. ^ Walter Addiego (19 April 2009). "San Francisco International Film Festival / Oblivion". San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-0419/entertainment/17194562_1_oblivion-peru-streets. Retrieved 14 January 2011. 3. ^ Jennie Punter (20 April 2007). "Hot Docs Festival: Where truths collide". The Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/article754558.ece. Retrieved 14 January 2011. 4. ^ (Dutch) "Frankrijk eert cineaste Heddy Honigmann", in NOS Nieuws, 14 June 2011. Retrieved on 16 June 2011. 5. ^ a b (Dutch) "Frankrijk eert Heddy Honigmann", in HollandDoc, 14 juni 2011. Retrieved on 20 June 2011.

External Links

Homepage Heddy Honigmann Interview with Heddy on eRenlai.com Heddy Honigmann at the Internet Movie Database

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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October 31, 1902 Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil August 17, 1987 (aged 84) Rio de Janeiro Poet Brazilian Modernism

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, 1902 - August 17, 1987) was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Cano Amiga" ("Friendly Song") was printed on the 50 cruzados note. He is considered to be among the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.

Biography

Drummond was born in Itabira, a mining village in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. His parents were farmers of Portuguese ancestry. He went to a school of pharmacy in Belo Horizonte, but never worked as a pharmacist after graduation. He worked in government service for most of his life, eventually becoming director of history for the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service of Brazil. Though his earliest poems are formal and satirical, Drummond quickly adopted the new forms of Brazilian modernism that were evolving in the 1920s, incited by the work of Mrio de Andrade (to whom he was not related). He adopted a Whitmanian free verse, mingling speech fluent in elegance and truth about the surrounding, many times quotidian, world, with a fluidity of thought. Drummond's popularity has been credited because a great part of his poetry (especially after lirycal maturity) has acquired an impressive capacity for the translation of ideas, transforming his particular troubles into a tool for universal communication. One of Drummond's best-known poems is his hymn to an ordinary man, "Jos." It is a poem of desolation The work of Carlos Drummond is generally divided into several segments, which appear very markedly in each of his books. But this is somewhat misleading, since even in the midst of his everyday poems or his socialist, politicized poems, there appear creations which can be easily incorporated into his later metaphysical canon, and none of these styles is completely free of the others. There is surely much metaphysical content in even his most political poems. The most prominent of these later metaphysical poems is A Mquina do Mundo (The World's Machine). The poem deals with an anti-Faust referred to in the first person, who receives the visit of the aforementioned Machine, which stands for all possible knowledge, and the sum of the answers for all the questions which afflict men; in highly dramatic and baroque versification the poem develops only for the anonymous subject to decline the offer of endless knowledge and proceed his gloomy path in the solitary road. It takes the renaissance allegory of the Machine of the World from Portugal's most esteemed poet, Lus de Cames, more precisely, from a canto at the end of his epic masterpiece Os Lusadas. There are also hints from Dante and the form is adapted from T. S. Eliot's dantesque passage in "Little Gidding." One of those said segments have been found only after his death: deliberately erotical poetry. That type of poetry has been published in only one book "Moa deitada na grama" (woman laid down in the grass) with the autorization and actual intervention by his son.[citation needed] Drummond is a favorite of American poets, a number of whom, including Mark Strand and Lloyd Schwartz, have translated him. Later writers and critics have sometimes credited his relationship with Elizabeth Bishop, his first English language translator, as influential for his American reception, but though she admired him Bishop claimed she barely knew him. In an interview with George Starbuck in 1977, she said, "I didn't know him at all. He's supposed to be very shy. I'm supposed to be very shy. We've met once

on the sidewalk at night. We had just come out of the same restaurant, and he kissed my hand politely when we were introduced."[1]

Bibliography
Poetry
Foto do Memorial Carlos Drummond de Andrade, em Itabira - MG.Alguma Poesia (1930) Brejo das Almas (1934) Sentimento do Mundo (1940) Jos (1942) A Rosa do Povo (1945) Claro Enigma (1951) Fazendeiro do ar (1954) Quadrilha (1954) Viola de Bolso (1955) Lio de Coisas (1964) Boitempo (1968) A falta que ama (1968) Nudez (1968) As Impurezas do Branco (1973) Menino Antigo (Boitempo II) (1973) A Visita (1977) Discurso de Primavera (1977) Algumas Sombras (1977) O marginal clorindo gato (1978) Esquecer para Lembrar (Boitempo III) (1979) A Paixo Medida (1980) Caso do Vestido (1983) Corpo (1984) Amar se aprende amando (1985) Poesia Errante (1988) O Amor Natural (1992) Farewell (1996) Os ombros suportam o mundo(1935) Futebol a arte (1970) Antologia potica: A ltima pedra no meu caminho (1950) 50 poemas escolhidos pelo autor (1956) Antologia Potica (1962) Antologia Potica (1965) Seleta em Prosa e Verso (1971) Amor, Amores (1975) Carmina drummondiana (1982) Boitempo I e Boitempo II (1987)

Minha morte (1987) O Elefante (1983) Histria de dois amores (1985) O pintinho (1988) Carol e Dinha(2009)

Prose

Confisses de Minas (1944) Contos de Aprendiz (1951) Passeios na Ilha (1952) Fala, amendoeira (1957) A bolsa & a vida (1962) Cadeira de balano (1966) Caminhos de Joo Brando (1970) O poder ultrajovem e mais 79 textos em prosa e verso (1972) De notcias & no-notcias faz-se a crnica (1974) Os dias lindos (1977) 70 historinhas (1978) Contos plausveis (1981) Boca de luar (1984) O observador no escritrio (1985) Tempo vida poesia (1986) Moa deitada na grama (1987) O avesso das coisas (1988) Auto-retrato e outras crnicas (1989) As histrias das muralhas (1989)

English translations
Souvenir of the Ancient World, translated by Mark Strand (Antaeus Editions, 1976) Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, with Songs from the Quechua, translated by Mark Strand (Knopf, 2002) Travelling in the family : selected poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Thomas Colchie (Random House, 1986) The minus sign: selected poems, translated by Virginia de Araujo (Black Swan, 1980) In the middle of the road; selected poems, translated by John A Nist (U of Arizona, 1965)

Further reading
English

Brazilian writers (encyclopedia) / Mnica Rector, ed. 2005

Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry since Modernism / Charles A. Perrone, 1996 The Cambridge history of Latin American literature. Volume 3, Brazilian literature / Roberto Gonzlez Echevarra., 1996 Tropical paths: essays on modern Brazilian literature / Randal Johnson., 1993 Brazilian literature: a research bibliography / David William Foster., 1990 The unquiet self: self and society in the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade / Ricardo Sternberg., 1986 Carlos Drummond de Andrade and his generation : proceedings / Frederick G Williams., 1986 The poetry and poetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade; diss. / John Gledson., 1979 The theme of human communication in the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, article / Mary Patricia O'Brien., 1970

Portuguese Drummond cordial / Jernimo Teixeira., 2005 A rima na poesia de Carlos Drummond de Andrade & outros ensaios / Hlcio de Andrade Martins., 2005 Drummond, a magia lcida / Marlene de Castro Correia., 2002 Leituras de Drummond / Flvio Loureiro Chaves., 2002 Drummond: um olhar amoroso / Luzia de Maria., 2002 A prosa luz da poesia em Carlos Drummond de Andrade / Regina Souza Vieira., 2002 Carlos Drummond de Andrade: a potica do cotidiano / Maria Veronica Aguilera., 2002 Drummond, poesia e experincia / Ivete Lara Camargos Walty., 2002 Drummond revisitado / Chantal Castelli., 2002 Corao partido: uma anlise da poesia reflexiva de Drummond / Davi Arrigucci Jnior., 2002 Drummond: da rosa do povo rosa das trevas / Vagner Camilo., 2001 Carlos Drummond de Andrade / Francisco Achcar., 2000 Ideologia e forma literria em Carlos Drummond de Andrade / Lucila Nogueira., 1990

Spanish Una potica de la despreocupacin: modernidad e identidad en cuatro poetas latinoamericanos / Rafael Rodrguez., 2003 Drummond, el poeta en el tiempo / Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna., 2003 Las retoricas de la decadencia: Mart, Pals, Drummond / Maribel Roig., 2001 Estado de alerta y estado de inocencia : algunas reflexiones sobre la poesa y el arte / E Bayley., 1996 Manuel Bandeira, Cecilia Meireles, Carlos Drummond de Andrade / Cipriano S Vitureira., 1952

External links
E agora Jos? What now Jos? The DVD of the film O Amor Natural by Heddy Honigmann, on the erotic poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade [Music] O Amor Natural, the erotic poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade translated into music by Georgia Dias & Boca The Elephant, translated by Mark Strand. From Ploughshares, 1975. In the Middle of the Road, translated by Elizabeth Bishop. (Portuguese) Biography of Carlos Drummond de Andrade .

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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Statue de Carlos Drummond de Andrade Itabira, Minas Gerais, sa ville natale. Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987) est considr comme l'un des principaux potes de la littrature brsilienne, par l'influence et la porte de son uvre. Il est n Itabira (Minas Gerais), le 31 octobre 1902 (ville dont le souvenir imprgnera une partie de son uvre). Diplm en pharmacie, il est rest fonctionnaire la majeure partie de sa vie, bien qu'il ait commenc crire trs jeune et ce jusqu' sa mort. Il est dcd le 17

aot 1987 Rio de Janeiro, douze jours aprs la mort de sa fille unique, l'crivain Maria Julieta Drummond de Andrade. part la posie, il a galement crit des contes et des chroniques.

Drummond et le modernisme brsilien[modifier]

Drummond, comme les autres modernistes, proclama la libert des mots, une libration qui autorise un langage model potiquement et situ en marge des conventions habituelles. La libration propose par Drummond rend le rythme plus libre en instituant le vers libre. Avec cette libration, le rythme ne se soumet plus une mtrique rigide. Si on divise le Modernisme en deux courants : un plus lyrique et subjectif et lautre plus objectif et concret, Drummond se classe dans le premier, ct de Mrio de Andrade. Il est important de signaler cependant, que la posie de Drummond se situe au-dessus des tendances littraires et de leurs classements. Sa posie reste toujours bien actuelle.

uvre (traductions franaises)[modifier]

Conversation extraordinaire avec une dame de ma connaissance et autres nouvelles. Traduit par Genevve Leibrich, Ins Oseki Depr et Mario Carelli. Paris, ditions A. M. Mtailli, 1985. Posie. Choix, traduction et notes de Didier Lamaison. Paris, Gallimard, 1990. La Machine du monde et autres pomes. Traduit et prsent par Didier Lamaison. Paris, Posie/Galimard, 2005.

U Toronto Library
O amor natural / Carlos Drummond de Andrade ; ilustraes de Milton Dacosta. Rio de Janeiro, RJ : Editora Record, c1992. vi, 100 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Language Portuguese Author Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, 1902-1987 Imprint Rio de Janeiro, RJ : Editora Record, c1992. ISBN 850104041X Catalogue key 1433622 Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-92). Subject Erotic poetry, Brazilian.

Author Stoyanov, Rumen, 1941Added author Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, 1902-1987. Title Drummond e a Bulgria / Rumen Stoyanov. Imprint Brasilia : Editora UnB, c2007. ISBN 8523009450 ISBN 9788523009458 Catalogue key 7294844 Subjects Authors, Brazilian 20th century Correspondence. Authors, Bulgarian 20th century Correspondence. Geographic Term Bulgaria Description and travel. Personal Subjects Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, 1902-1987 Correspondence. Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, 1902-1987 Knowledge Bulgaria. Stoyanov, Rumen, 1941- Correspondence.