A famous Underground film about the underworld-thieves, addicts, smugglers, con artists, and artists-The Red Light Bandit is a genre-bending B-film homage à la Breathless, or "a western about the Third World," in the director's words. The protagonist is a Pierrot le Fou-like urban hustler who steals from (also kills) the rich and, despite his newspaper sobriquet Zorro of the Poor, leads an extravagant high life among the marginals of his choice. While eluding a police dragnet, he does it his way. And so does the film's 23-year-old director, film critic and cinephile Rogério Sganzerla, who is as wickedly unsentimental as his protagonist and twice as crafty. A layered soundtrack, offscreen narration that doesn't jibe with the images, a pastiche of tropical-pop references, and a taste for bad taste-as Robert Stam notes, when a subtitle announces "My last bomb," we don't know if it will be hurled by protagonist or director.