Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.Read More »
Brazil
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Suzana Amaral – Uma Vida em Segredo (2001)
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Vincent Carelli & Tatiana Almeida & Ernesto de Carvalho – Martírio (2016)
2011-2020BrazilDocumentaryErnesto de CarvalhoTatiana AlmeidaVincent CarelliSynopsis:
The great reclaiming march for the sacred Guarani Kaiowá territories through Vincent Carelli’s filming, who recorded the birthplace of the movement in the 1980s. Twenty years later, touched by the successive massacres reports, Carelli searches the origins of this genocide, a conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guarani Kaiowá against the powerful apparatus of agribusiness.Read More » -
João Batista de Andrade – O Homem que Virou Suco AKA The Wrung-Out Man (1980)
1971-1980BrazilDramaJoão Batista de AndradePoliticsQuote:
São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.Read More » -
José Hipolito Trigueirinho Neto – Bahia de Todos os Santos aka Bahia of All Saints (1960)
1951-1960BrazilClassicsDramaJosé Hipolito Trigueirinho NetoQueer Cinema(s)The saga of adolescents living on their own as adults was treated as early as 1961 by Triguerinho Neto in this film set in Salvador, Bahia, under the Vargas dictatorship. Tonio has left home, unable to identify with his parents’ community centered around their African-derived religion. But he finds that, as a mulatto, in the outside world he is rejected by whites who see him as black and by blacks who see him as white. Tonio, who prefers the company of marginals who are as indefinable as himself, settles into the protection of a woman old enough to be his mother and befriends local dockworkers who are on strike. Betraying the former to help the latter, he finds himself alone. In his inability to commit, Tonio may be a proletarian version of the rootless character central to early sixties Cinema Novo in such films as São Paulo S/A.Read More »
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Júlio Bressane – O Anjo Nasceu (1969)
1961-1970BrazilCrimeDramaJúlio BressaneJulio Bressane wrote:
“When I made O Anjo Nasceu I thought I had made my most difficult film, a completely irresponsible film, that space, that vacuum, that nothing. It was a devastating experience for me, a shock. Much, much more than Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema, which was a well-received film. I think O Anjo Nasceu is still unknown territory, even for me”Read More » -
Eliane Caffé – Era o Hotel Cambridge AKA The Cambridge Squatter (2016)
2011-2020BrazilDocumentaryDramaEliane CafféSynopsis:
Shows the unusual situation of homeless Brazilians movement and refugees that squat together an abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. The daily tension caused by the treat of eviction reveals the dramas and joys.Read More » -
Walter Hugo Khouri – Amor Estranho Amor AKA Love Strange Love (1982)
1981-1990BrazilDramaEroticaWalter Hugo KhouriMan remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.Read More »
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Glauber Rocha – Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol AKA Black God, White Devil [+commentaries] (1964)
1961-1970ArthouseBrazilDramaGlauber RochaQuote:
After killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.Reehan Miah wrote:
Glauber Rocha’s Aesthetics of Hunger – a 1965 essay which attempts to explicate the Cinema Novo – reads like a convoluted mass of allegations, opacities and rhetoric (none of which are necessarily without substance). Somewhere within these imbroglios however, one stumbles upon an assertion that’s especially jarring:Read More » -
Maya Da-Rin – A Febre (2019)
2011-2020BrazilDramaMaya Da-RinQuote:
A middle-aged native widower in Brazil, Justino lives his life according to set patterns. He puts in long shifts as a security guard in the Port of Manaus, then returns to the Amazon where he lives with his family. When his daughter says she wants to study in Brasilia, Justino’s regular life gradually becomes disrupted. His pain manifests itself in the form of a mysterious fever.Read More »