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  • Eduardo Nunes – Sudoeste aka Southwest (2012)

    Eduardo Nunes2011-2020BrazilDrama
    Sudoeste (2011)
    Sudoeste (2011)

    In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.Read More »

  • Glauber Rocha – Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol AKA Black God, White Devil (1964)

    Glauber Rocha1961-1970ArthouseBrazilDrama

    Quote:
    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 »

  • Carlos Reichenbach – Extremos do Prazer (1984)

    Carlos Reichenbach1981-1990BrazilExperimental
    Extremos do Prazer (1984)
    Extremos do Prazer (1984)

    Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe’s country house for a while. But she invites the intellectual Marcela and broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz’s world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.Read More »

  • Walter Hugo Khouri – O Desejo (1975)

    1971-1980BrazilDramaWalter Hugo Khouri
    O Desejo (1975)
    O Desejo (1975)

    Widowed eleven months ago, Eleonora, a 33-year-old woman from the Sao Paulo state bourgeoisie, lives alone, unsuited to her husband’s absence, an intellectual frustrated and torn between the need for transcendence and a strong sexual compulsion. The couple’s life, although not happy, was intense. However, the presence of Ana Maria, a recent arrival from Paris, a middle-class university student, is staying at her house. The two go to the site of Eleonora and this one remembers its life with Marcelo and the death of this one by drowning. Ana has the same existential preoccupations and existential obsessions of Marcelo, and Eleonora identifies in her an extension of the husband. Feeling attraction and at the same time jealous of Ana, she does nothing to save her when they both swim in the dam and Ana suffers a fit of cramp.Read More »

  • Anselmo Duarte – Vereda da Salvação AKA The Obsessed of Catale (1965)

    1961-1970Anselmo DuarteBrazilDrama
    Vereda da Salvação (1965)
    Vereda da Salvação (1965)

    Joaquim (Raul Cortez) becomes crazy and convinces himself that he is the messiah incarnated. With the desperate support of his miserable village, he will start a holy terror movement.

    This film was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 15th Berlin International Film FestivalRead More »

  • Fernando Matos Silva – O Mal-Amado (1974)

    1971-1980DramaFernando Matos SilvaPortugal
    O Mal Amado (1974)
    O Mal Amado (1974)

    The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that’s short lived because his female boss makes him her lover.Read More »

  • Jean Garret – Possuídas Pelo Pecado (1976)

    Jean Garret1971-1980BrazilDrama
    Possuídas Pelo Pecado (1976)
    Possuídas Pelo Pecado (1976)

    Dr. Leme, a rich old man, is frustrated about not having children with his wife Raquel. In his mansion, he gives parties filled with drinking and sex with his secretaries. André, his driver, becomes lover of Rachel and they plan to kill Lemer to get hold of his fortune.Read More »

  • Júlia Murat – Regra 34 AKA Rule 34 (2022)

    Júlia Murat2021-2030BrazilDrama
    Regra 34 (2022)
    Regra 34 (2022)

    Synopsis
    Simone 23-year-old studies criminal law and advocates for women’s rights and at night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night watching a film awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification.Read More »

  • João Batista de Andrade – Restos (1975)

    João Batista de Andrade1971-1980BrazilDocumentaryPolitics
    Restos (1975)
    Restos (1975)

    Inspired by the testimony of an American technician who, examining the São Paulo dump, stated: “Sao Paulo rubbish is the richest in the world.” The film shows the misery of those who live on this garbage and the police repression on the scavengers.Read More »

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