Review: Nheengatu – The Language from the Amazon Fore

Just like his thick-accented colleague before,
José Barahona can't resist the call of the Amazonian forest in
Nheengatu: a Brazilian-Portuguese co-production which had its world premiere at DocLisboa and heads out in the search of a language that didn't exist before 1500. Based on the Portuguese and the indigenous Tupi language, Nheengatu used to be, it is said here, “a language of the conquerors and now it's the language of resistance”. It's a catchy statement, but as the trip goes on, it becomes obvious that the people Barahona meets view it in different ways, using it proudly or dismissing it as something only elders use, already on its way to extinction. In any case, it certainly is more than a catchy statement.

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