A hit Brazilian telenovela is updated for a different age
The new “Pantanal” is full of nostalgia, but much about its wetland setting has changed
When benedito ruy barbosa first pitched “Pantanal”, a telenovela about rugged ranchers and landless peasants, to tv Globo, Brazil’s biggest television network, it was rejected. So Mr Barbosa took his idea elsewhere. For months his crew relocated to the region that gave the show its name, which is home to the world’s largest tropical wetland. They flew over floodplains in small aircraft to reach their locations. They filmed their actors silhouetted against sunsets.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Frame the swamp”
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