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PICTURES OF GHOSTS – Review by Jennifer Green

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Jennifer Green autobiographical, brazilian films, documentary, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Pictures of Ghosts, Recife, São Luiz cinema

A love letter to the Brazilian city of Recife as well as to cinemas and urban centers of a bygone era, Pictures of Ghosts is an intelligent documentary with relatively limited audience appeal. Brazil’s sensible nominee to the International Feature Film Oscar, it premiered in Special Screenings at Cannes and offers an evocative exploration of the nation’s own cinema history and golden age of movie theaters.

Festivals Reviews

Bacurau – TIFF 19 Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

September 5, 2019September 15, 2019 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 0 Comments Bacurau, Bárbara Colen, brazilian films, cannes, Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho, TIFF

A ‘human safari’ tour business brings blood-thirsting North Americans to South America to let loose with their desire to kill in what what their intrinsic racism allows them to frame as “ethical”. They consider murdering rural, poor Brazilians a moral act superior to letting loose at a local shopping mall or elementary school in the United States.