Category: Cinema

10/08/2013 Alice Braga | Elysium Crítica | Elysium Review | entertainment | Health Care System | Immigration and Deportation | No access to Treatment Feitosa-Santana

Elysium (2013) Review

Written, co-produced and directed by Neill Blomkamp, Elysium means a place or condition of ideal happiness. The movie happens in 2154 but it is an obvious metaphor for life on Earth nowadays. It is so obvious that when the director was asked about his science fiction, he answered “No, no, no. This isn’t science fiction. This is today. […]

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. […]

27/07/2013 Ana Carolina Dias | Ana Luiza Garritano | Denise Weinberg | João Baldasserini | Jose Geraldo Rodriguez | Kaique de Jesus Santos | Linha de Passe Filme | Linha de Passe Movie | poverty line | Roberto Audio | Sandra Corveloni | Sérgio Mastropasqua | Vinícius de Oliveira | walter salles Feitosa-Santana

Pass Line, the Movie (2008)

A typical low middle class building in SP. The director is the great Walter Salles together with Daniela Thomas. The first movie (for myself) with 5 main characters. Worth watching if you appreciate Brazilian movies… or if you wanna know about Brazil. Sandra Corveloni won the Cannes award for best actress. “One is a little kid obsessed […]

23/07/2013 Child and Adolescent Statute | child status | Evaldo Luis Pauly | Gilberto Ferreira da Silva | Luis Fernando de Andrade | Reduction of Criminal Age | Reduction of Criminal Age and Racism | Sand Captains Jorge Amado | Sand Captains Movie Feitosa-Santana

Sand Captains

I read Captains of Sand a long time ago… by Jorge Amado. Today I watched the movie. A perfection! And to think that we can still go back and reduce the age of criminal responsibility. If that happens, Brazil will take a thousand steps backwards. How can it be possible for every 9 in 10 […]