Abstract

MACHADO JR., Rubens. Libelu mince à la carte, no pepper, little salt. Ñawi [online]. 2022, vol.6, n.2, pp.149-170. ISSN 2588-0934.  https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v6n2.a9.

The film Libelu-Abaixo a Ditadura!, won the 2020 edition of the Tudo é Verdade festival, in São Paulo, Brazil, the main event in the country among documentary festivals, and worldwide recognized, today part of the Oscar nominations. This essay that seeks to explain critically his point of view in relation to the concrete experience of students who participated in that political moment at the Brazilian university in the second half of the 1970s. The student tendency Liberdade e Luta, of Trotskyist orientation, known as Libelu, played a prominent role in the political reopening, among other reasons for taking to the public space the first political demonstrations in the country since 1968 and the watchword Down with Dictatorship! The essay is interested in the underlying themes and evoked by the documentary around the fight against Dictatorship (1964-1985), including debates between the left, counterculture and avant-garde issues in arts and culture.

Keywords : Brazilian anti-dictatorial struggles; contemporary brazilian cinema; left countercultural behavior; political documentary cinema; student movement of the 1970s; Trotsky, the arts and culture.

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