O País de São Saruê: e se a Paraíba fosse aqui?

Authors

  • Heverton da Silva Guedes Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Abstract

Building on Bernardet (2003), this paper seeks to demonstrate how Vladimir Carvalho’s film  O País de São Saruê (1971) challenges the conventions of the “sociological model” to weave,  with lyricism, a documentary approach that is both less distanced and attentive to a more complex sertão landscape. By examining the construction of the narrator and the conduct of interviews, the study maps a particular sertão situated between reality and utopia, between the imaginary and imagination. It is at this intersection that the documentary’s work engages — and confronts — our own: in the compelling impulse to activate imaginaries long deeply rooted.

Published

2026-03-31

Issue

No. 39 (2026): O REAL COMO MÉTODO: DIÁLOGOS ENTRE O DOCUMENTÁRIO E A TEORIA DE CINEASTAS | La realidad como método: diálogos entre el documental y la Teoría de los cineastas | Reality as Method: Dialogues between Documentary and Filmmakers’ theory | La réalité comme méthode : dialogues entre théorie du documentaire et la Théorie des cinéastes

Section

ARTIGOS | Artículos | Articles | Articles

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