Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents Read More »
Tag Archives: Brazil
The Dead Girl’s Feast (2008) Matheus Nachtergaele, Daniel de Oliveira, Juliano Cazarré, Jackson Antunes
For every one of the last 20 years, The Dead Girl’s Feast has been celebrated in a small riverside community in the upper part of the Negro River. Read More »
Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980) José Fonseca e Costa, Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello
Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Read More »
My Hindu Friend (2015) Hector Babenco, Willem Dafoe, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Reynaldo Gianecchini
His father has died, he doesn’t speak for his brother for about 10 years and he has a serious cancer. Read More »
The Deceased (1965) Leon Hirszman, Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Gracindo, Ivan Cândido
In the suburb of Sampaio, Zulmira visits a fortune teller (Madame Crisálida) who advises her to be careful with a ‘blonde woman’. Read More »
Mango Yellow (2002) Cláudio Assis, Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Leona Cavalli
Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters Read More »
Unicorn (2017) Eduardo Nunes, Bárbara Luz, Patricia Pillar, Zécarlos Machado
A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. Read More »
Alice’s House (2007) Chico Teixeira, Carla Ribas, Berta Zemel, Vinicius Zinn
Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children Read More »
Baron Olavo, the Horrible (1970) Júlio Bressane, Rodolfo Arena, Helena Ignez, Isabella
Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Read More »
Hopefuls (2015) Ives Rosenfeld, Ariclenes Barroso, Sergio Malheiros, Julia Bernat
Junior, as he’s known since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. Read More »