NATAL DA PORTELA Purchasing Options:DVD + Streaming " ~ Hollywood Reporter

" ~ Hollywood Reporter

Its atmosphere of calm bourgeois propriety is soon upended by the arrival of the boys' mother

on whom the opposition had pinned their hopes

WHITE LIKE THE MOON

NATAL DA PORTELA Purchasing Options:DVD + Streaming " ~ Hollywood ReporterNATAL DA PORTELA DIRECTED BY PAULO CEZAR SARACENI BRAZIL 1988 PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 100 MIN SYNOPSIS The name Natal da Portela is historically attached to the cultural identity of Brazil. Natal da Portela created the first escola de samba in Rio de Janeiro. The schools of samba are the soul of carnival in Brazil and major reservoirs of Afro Brazilian culture. The film depicts the life of Natal da Portela as a young man from the favelas the