Campo de migrações: Fabiano, Manuel, Ranulfo e os anônimos do sertão

Abstract

This article compares reéent Braiilian· .films - "Baile perfumado" (1996) and ·~cinema, aspirinas e urubus" (2005)- withdassic Cin~ma Novo films, like "Vidas secas", "Os fuzis;' and "Deus e o diabo na terra do sol". ItJocuses on the displacement that took place iq the representation of the experierice of migration in the sertão from the 1990's on. The analysis concentrates in the way the films conceive their main characters and give meaning to their experience, either in connection with the representation of social types living migration as a social need(Cinerria Novo) or in connection with the representation of particular individuais who face unexpected encounters and live . migration as a singuhrr experience of a transnational character (films from the last decades).