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"We lament the death of an extraordinary director," tweeted
Brazilian President Michel Temer, after news of the death was
announced on Thursday by the Sao Paulo hospital where he had
been treated.
Born in 1946 and nominated for the Oscar 40 years later,
Argentine-Brazilian Babenco also directed other films such as "Pixote"
in 1981 and "Carandiru" in 2003.
Set in a Latin American jail cell where an unlikely pair of
prisoners are forced by brutal circumstances to understand and
eventually respect each other, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was
based on the novel by Argentine Manuel Puig.
(Reporting by Maria Pia Palermo and Maximilian Heath; Editing by
James Dalgleish)
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