Category: Cinema Brasileiro

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 […]

08/08/2013 Age of Criminal Responsability | assisted reproduction | Chacina da Candelária | Chacina da Candelária Sobreviventes | homeless child | hostage situation | jail cells | legal abortion | Luís Eduardo Soares | Ônibus 174 | roger ebert | Yvone Bezerra Feitosa-Santana

Bus 174

I have always heard about the kidnapping of the bus 174, and only today I had the chance to watch the documentary “Bus 174” (2002) directed by José Padilha. This incident happened on June 12, 2000 and I was very far from Brazil – that is why I was kind of ignorant about this tragedy. […]

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 […]