Category: Brazilian Movies

12/01/2016 art | art or crime | Cripta Djan Ivson | education | human-rights | joao wainer pixo | marcio siwi | pixo | rafael pixo faap Feitosa-Santana

Pixação: What is Pixo?

PIXO is a Brazilian documentary (2009) directed by João Wainer and Roberto T. Oliveira: And here an article written by Marcio Siwi for The Guardian about Pixação and Graffiti: If Brazil is “not for beginners”, as the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim once said, then its great urban centre, São Paulo, is certainly not for the faint of heart. It’s not just […]

02/04/2014 Bishop Pulitzer | Brazil | Brazilians | Cinema | Golpe 64 | North American | Parque do Flamengo | Reaching to the Moon Feitosa-Santana

About Brazilians…

“As Tom Jobim says, “Brazil is not for beginners…”, how come you live in a place where stamps come unglued, sopa melts almost before you can use it, rivers run too fast to the sea? I would like to understand this unbearable joy Brazilians have, this constant urge to celebrate, and there is your melancholy, it’s […]

28/10/2013 Brazilian society | Claudio Fonteneles | Mr. M | Sao Paulo Armored Car | Sao Paulo kidnapping | SUDAN Scandal Feitosa-Santana

In “Manda Bala”: Jader Barbalho and Magrinho, 2 kidnappers from Brazil. Which is worse?

Manda Bala is a masterpiece. This documentary shows the criminal politician (sorry for the pleonasm), Jader Barbalho, who steals the dignity of millions of Brazilians and still manages to own all the communication networks in Pará and, thus, manipulate these same millions to continue voting for him. On the other side, the film shows the […]

21/07/2013 Adrift Cannes | Cinema A Deriva | festival de cannes | Separação Feitosa-Santana

Adrift (À Deriva) Movie

Brazil, Buzios 80’s. A couple in crisis, Mathias (Vincent Cassel) and Clarice (Debora Block). 3 children. Filipa (Laura Neiva), the oldest and main character, feels the tension between the parents, the mother’s constant drunkenness and the beginning of her father’s affair with an American woman, Angela (Camilla Belle). Adrift, Filipa watches everything while transitioning between […]