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A PARTIHA
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This fun Brazilian picture, based on Miguel Falabella's successful play, follows four very different sisters as they try to divvy up their mother's inheritance. A vibrant and appealing production, A Partilha "swings between broad farce, family drama, musical and sexual lib parable" (Variety). Stars Gloria Pires, Andrea Beltrao, Lilia Cabral, and Paloma Duarte. In Portuguese with optional English, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. Daniel Filho---Brazil---2001---93 mins.
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ALICE'S HOUSE
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The first feature from Brazilian documentary filmmaker Chico Teixeira is a "delicate and earthy" (The N.Y. Times) melodrama about the matriarch (Carla Ribas) of a working class family in Sao Paulo. Feeling her looks and libido slipping away, she turns a chance encounter with an old flame into a scorching affair that helps stave off a midlife crisis. Surprisingly, sexual secrets are behind every door in Alice's House (A Casa de Alice), winner of an International Film Plaque at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Chico Teixeira---Brazil---2007---92 mins.
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ALL NIGHT BODEGA
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A rebellious teen fresh out of jail (Tammy Trull) runs away from home to escape her domineering mother and her new cop boyfriend. Alone in New York City, she seeks refuge with an all-girl gang and comes face-to-face with many unsettling and dangerous realities of life on the streets. Named Best Film at the New York International Latino Film Festival. Felix Olivier---Brazil---2002---92 mins.
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ALMOST BROTHERS
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A winner of 11 awards at multiple South American festivals, Quase Dois Irmaos looks at the severe class inequalities in Brazil over a four decade period as experienced by two childhood friends. Miguel is a middle-class white who grows from youthful rebellion into a career as a progressive politician. Jorge, a black kid from the Rio de Janeiro slums, goes to prison and eventually rises to drug-lord status. "Strong stuff...This bitter, hardheaded movie doesn't let us off easily" (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Co-written by Paulo Lins, who penned the novel upon which City of God was based. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Lucia Murat---Brazil---2004---102 mins.
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ANTONIA
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A cast of Brazilian hip-hop performers comprise this harrowing and ultimately heartwarming film that follows a year in the life of four women from Sao Paolo. Tired of simply being back-up singers for male musicians, four friends set out on their own. From the producers of the sublime City of God, the film promises to captivate and move viewers as it "explores cultural and sexual oppression with sensitivity and verve" (The New York Times). In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Tate Amaral---Brazil---2006---88 mins.
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ANTONIO DAS MORTES
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A transformation of native folk art and mystical tradition into film, this violent, powerful work from Glauber Rocha concerns the matador of cangaceiros, a paid killer of rebels and bandits in the backlands. One of the most original films of its time, the worldwide success of Antonio das Mortes established the Brazilian Cinema Novo. In Portuguese with French subtitles.
Glauber Rocha---Brazil---1969---95 mins.
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ASTRAL CITY: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
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Renato Prieto stars in this drama following a doctor who experiences a spiritual transformation in the days after his death, when he finds himself in a mysterious realm known as the Astral City. Based on the bestselling book by medium Chico Xavier. (VPD) In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Wagner de Assis---Brazil---2010---102 mins.
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BEHIND THE SUN/ ABRIL DESPEDAC
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The director of Central Station presents a moving story of young people caught up in ancestral violence, looking for a way out. The ongoing feud between a family of poor sugarcane farmers and one of wealth and property is expected to be carried on by young Tonho, who is supposed to avenge the death of his older brother. Tonho's younger brother and the arrival of a beautiful circus performer tempt him to rebel against his bloody obligation and find a new life before he falls victim to his current one. "Salles and cinematographer Walter Carvalho provide images that sear themselves into your memory...Salles sees poetry in his characters' faces as well" (Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune). In Portuguese with English subtitles. Walter Salles---Brazil---2001---92 mins.
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BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL/ DEUS
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A quintessential film from Brazil's Cinema Novo, this film of immense power from Glauber Rocha is set in the impoverished Northeastern Brazil, and focuses on a poor peasant as he changes from a fanatical preacher into an honorable bandit. A violent yet lyrical portrait of Brazilian society. Also known as God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun. In Portuguese with English Glauber Rocha---Brazil---1964---125 mins.
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BLACK ORPHEUS (CRITERION)
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Marcel Camus' quintessential love story based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is set against the vivid backdrop of carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus, the streetcar conductor, falls hopelessly in love with Eurydice. Winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes as well as an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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BLINDNESS (MEIRELLES)
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Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Danny Glover star in this adaptation of Jose Saramago's celebrated novel about an epidemic that takes people's sight. Directed by Fernando Meirelles, who is not new to helming a major book-to-film project (i.e. The Constant Gardener). In English. Fernando Meirelles---Canada/Brazil---2008---120 mins.
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BLOOD & WINE: BRAZILIAN STORY
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Just outside Sao Paulo in the late 1950s, a simple family is working to open a store. Their hopes and dreams for the establishment are shattered when the police arrive to violently arrest a man. Tragedy continues to pursue the family throughout Blood and Wine, behind which viewers can see the socio-political turmoil plaguing all of Brazil at the time. Based on a novel by Miguel Jorge. Starring Simone Spoladore and Leanardo Vieira. In Portuguese Joao Batista de Andrade---Brazil---2006---105 mins.
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BOSSA NOVA
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In this sexy, witty feature, Amy Irving stars as an American widow teaching English in Rio de Janeiro. While still unsure about another relationship, she finds herself pursued by a young soccer stud (Alexandre Borges) and an older but charming lawyer (Antonio Fagundes). Romance also blooms among other students and acquaintances as the "coincidences that bring some characters together and keep others apart in this romantic comedy are plotted with musical grace" (Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader). In English and Bruno Barreto---Brazil/USA---2000---95 mins.
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BYE BYE BRAZIL
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A small-time travelling sideshow plays over 9,000 miles of backwards Brazil, a country of primitivism and progress. One of the most original and entertaining films of recent years, Bye Bye Brazil is exotic, exuberant, and often moving. "Vastly entertaining...a Brazilian smash" (Rex Reed). In Portuguese with English subtitles. Carlos Diegues---Brazil---1980---110 mins.
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CARLOTA JOAQUINA PRINCESA DO
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A stagy Brazilian drama that casts a critical eye on the Portuguese royal family during Brazil's late colonial period. Marieta Severo plays Carlota Joaquina - Princesa do Brazil in Carla Camurati's award-winning film. In Portuguese and English with optional English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French Carla Camurati---Brazil---1995---100 mins.
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CARMO, HIT THE ROAD
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A sexy road movie about two wayward souls who are bound by their mutual desire to escape a crime boss. Mariana Loureiro is Carmo, who wields her body to get what she wants. In this case, she wants out of her crummy town. Enter a wheelchair-bound smuggler named Marco. "Inspired by the wildest stylings of Leone, Fellini and Tarantino" (Variety).
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CARNAL UTOPIA
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Also known as Sonjos e Desejos (Dancing in Utopia), this steamy Brazilian romance is set in the 1970s and deals with a love triangle that develops among young revolutionaries conspiring against the military dictatorship. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Marcelo Santiago---Brazil---2006---90 mins.
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CENTRAL STATION
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Fernanda Montenegro delivered a universally acclaimed performance in this tender and moving drama about a lonely, hardened woman who is befriended by an orphan boy at Rio de Janeiro's central train station. Montenegro was named Best Actress by the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and was similarly honored at the Berlin Film Festival, where the film was also named Best Picture. "...the best performance by an actress I've seen all year" (Peter Rainer, New York Magazine). In Portuguese with Walter Salles---Brazil---1998---106 mins.
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CHARCOAL PEOPLE
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Academy Award-winning director Nigel Noble's devastating documentary about the peasant workers who make charcoal for Brazil's steel industry documents the injustices of economics in the world as well as any film in recent memory. Plagued by lung disease and poor nutrition, these workers still barely make a living from their backbreaking labor. The film addresses the dual exploitation of their occupation--the workers are cut down almost as severely as the rain forests their work destroys. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Nigel Noble---Brazil---1999---70 mins.
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CHRONICALLY UNFEASIBLE
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This intelligent, if cynical, dissection of Brazilian society revolves around the interactions of six characters in a restaurant. As they grapple with their everyday personal problems, they also address issues of race, violence, corruption and class relations that affect the people of Brazil. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Sergio Bianchi---Brazil---2000---101 mins.
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