Miguilim no cinema: da novela “Campo Geral” ao filme “Mutum”

Abstract

The poetics of myopia, the inferior passages, the silence, the absence of music in the movie, the documental ballast, and the fi delity to aesthetics of Guimarães Rosa are themes raised by the feature fi lm “Mutum” (2007), na adaptation of the novel “Campo Geral”, better known as “the story of Miguilim”, from the book “Corpo de baile” (1956). We will see how the movie recreates the literary text and the very work method of the writer, who traveled the Brazilian hinterland, collecting elements for his stories.