For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
Editing
Chronology shattered and reassembled like temporal origami.
Direction
Two directors wrestling with six decades of one man's cinema.
Production
The ultimate director's cut: his entire life, re-cut.
Director
Júlio Bressane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bressane has been making films since 1967; this 'retrospective' includes footage from over half a century of his deliberately anti-commercial career.
The title references his 1967 debut 'The Red Light Bandit'—the yellow bus replaces the red light, suggesting cinema itself has become the vehicle of transgression.
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