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ASSUNTINA OF AMÉRIKAS: an opera, a musical one, a comedy, a colored gesture of creative freedom. Assuntina is sought by the camera not like a woman-history, bearer certain political ideas. Besides, fidelity inexists the only one woman’s certain image. And instead of the true woman (Sara, of “Terra em Transe”), we have an object bitter, superficial, closed in the search of her identity.Read More »
As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the town’s patron saint. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards.Read More »
Newly wed arrives at her husband’s family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law’s room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She’s only to return seventeen years later, and sick.
Based on the great novel “Crônica da Casa Assassinada” by Lúcio CardosoRead More »
Focusing on the culture and beliefs of the people in the state of Minas Geraes in Brazil, this highly innovative drama by director Carlos Alberto Prates-Correia continuously blurs the line between fantasy and reality. At center stage is a man and his life, viewed from the perspective of his dreams, visions of the past, interpretations of the present, and a “real” world somewhere in-between. Cultural and social vignettes from life in Minas Geraes are interspersed throughout the film; the avant-garde approach of Prates-Correia contorts some of these vignettes into enigmas.Read More »