Fronteira, fusão, filme: um toque

Abstract

Considered the first co-production between MERCOSUR countries, "The touch of the Oboe", a film by Claudio MacDowell, suffers from some sort of vagueness that shows off the difficulties of a complete commercial and cultural movie exchange between Brazil's neighbor countries. Even bolstered with powerful traditions, the productive associative project of this cinematic realization emblematizes an economical, symbolical and historical imbalance which still prevails among the countries of the Southern Common Market. The text notes some of these tensions, marked by the relationship between cinema and literature.

Keywords

• MERCOSUL movies
• Cinematographic co-production
• The Touch of Oboe.