Listening to your voices

At Play in the Fields of the Lord’ is a beautiful and moving movie. The main scenes were filmed in Belém do Pará, Brazil, but it is a co-prodution organized by the august director Hector Babenco (Brazil) and the French actor Jean-Claude Carriére. Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates and John Lithgow were in the cast.
Adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name, the movie is a drama and tells the story of two aircraf pilots. They were flying on the Amazon Forest when they had to land in the small city of Madre de Deus  There was a very nasty  police captain and he tried to made the pilots to bombard an Indian tribe called “the Niarunas”. The problem is that one of the pilots was an Indian descendent.
I saw this film when I was a teenager but I remember that I was deeply  moved me by the story. The pictures were beautiful, too; but, the most interesting were the old Brazilian songs playing like soundtrack. It is a great movie, despite that did not use good especial effects. In my opinion ‘At Play in the Fields of the Lord’ is an unmissable movie.

By Hirto

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