"Hunger for Love took a long time to be liberated but was finally released as the censors felt that no one would understand it anyway. Ironically, it is the one film that depicts a call for revolution..."-dos Santos In 1964 a military coup turned the cultural climate cold and dangerous with censorship and repression. Hunger for Love (subtitled Have You Ever Bathed Completely Naked?) represented a new aesthetic tack for dos Santos in its nearly allegorical, improvised narrative-the second stage of Cinema Nôvo or cinema lixo ("garbage cinema"). Set on an island off the coast, Hunger parses out a critique of Brazil's failed revolution in a communal microcosm consisting of two spouse-swapping couples. Conflicts and self-delusions climax at a La Dolce Vita-like masquerade party. With this wonderfully subversive expression of an Eden gone terribly wrong, dos Santos exchanged neorealist grit for the stylistic discontinuities of Godard, Resnais, and Fellini.-Kathleen Murphy