Ruínas tropicais: pervivência da Tropicália no filme de Durval Discos

Abstract

The paper aims to investigate the repercussions of the Tropicália movement (1967-69) in 1990s Brazil in dialogue with the present, through the approximation of theoretical texts and tropicalist works of art with the movie Durval Discos written and directed by Anna Muylaert (2002) highlighting its soundtrack. The film is set in a record store in São Paulo, where the advent of the CD makes the sale of LPs an obsolete act restricted to a limited sphere of nostalgic collectors. The soundtrack, populated by the intense tracks reminiscent of Tropicália, contrasts at first with the shy private space of Durval's shop and the quiet life of the characters, apart from the turbulent metropolis. From that, the work seeks to examine differences of cultural contexts from the 60s to the 1990s that, at first, settled the creation of certain artistic manifestations and, decades later, put into play, through film art, the permanence of tropical ruins: shards of experiences that preserve negative power of questioning and transforming present time.