O Bandido da Luz Vermelha

Based on police records of a famous bandit in São Paulo (Brazil), the film tracks the rise of an enigmatic pillager of luxurious residences whom the tabloids have named for his technique of using a red flashlight to illuminate his female victim's faces, while talking to them before proceeding to rape and kill them. One of the key works of the Cinema Marginal, with its "aesthetics of garbage", the late Sganzerla combines western, detective story, documentary, musical, comedy, science fiction and radical politics, in the vein of Godard's gangster films... "The Red Light Bandit" is Sganzerla's first feature film. He was 22, he was a critic-cinephile and he tried a rebellion - he went for it and he won. The film sets new ground for blending aesthetics that one would never think of mixing together: Orson Welles, Pierrot le Fou and the structure of sensationalist radio broadcastings of crime journalism. It's the first true example in Brazilian cinema of an art-pop film.