Naked lunch from Nelson Pereira dos Santos, whose ground-breaking Vidas Secas helped found the Brazilian cinema-novo movement in 1963. How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, which marks an important step forward in that movement, is a slyly entertaining mixture of anthropology, black humor, gorgeous color photography, sixteenth-century history, political allegory, ubiquitous nudity, and unsettling prophecy. A Frenchman captured by Indians tries nobly to integrate himself with the savage mind, but true incorporation into the tribe is ultimately possible in only one way: through the stomach.