Ask your parents, grandparents, or any nearby elder, and they’ll tell you that though the world has changed since their youth, many of the fights have not. Debates over racism, Lgtbq rights, and gender inequality rage today as if they were brand-new — and that means ancestors and veterans of past struggles can often offer lessons for grappling with an uncertain future.
Perhaps that’s one reason why Latin America venerates its musical legends. Just look to social media’s obsession with Mexican balladeer Paquita la del Barrio, merengue típico meme queen Fefita La Grande,...
Perhaps that’s one reason why Latin America venerates its musical legends. Just look to social media’s obsession with Mexican balladeer Paquita la del Barrio, merengue típico meme queen Fefita La Grande,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Richard Villegas
- Rollingstone.com
Globo Filmes, the powerful film production arm of Brazil’s Globo, Latin America’s largest media company, has unveiled 11 new movie projects which join the biggest production slate of any company in Brazil.
Directors of new titles, all co-productions, range from star auteur Gabriel Mascaró, and celebrated doc director Eryk Rocha to multi-prized actor Dira Paes, who broke out in John Boorman’s “The Emerald Forest.”
Also in the cut is David Schurmann (“Little Secret”), who and Jean-Pierre Dutilleux whose 1976 “Raoni,” scored and was Oscar nomination and was championed by Marlon Brando.
Mascaró will direct “The Other Side of the Sky,” produced by Globo Filmes and Desvía Produções, a fantasy drama set in an alternative reality Brazil where anyone over 80 is confined to a colony, to help Brazil’s economic recovery. Rocha is prepping “Elza,” a doc portrait of legendary singer Elza Soares, Paes has in development her directorial debut,...
Directors of new titles, all co-productions, range from star auteur Gabriel Mascaró, and celebrated doc director Eryk Rocha to multi-prized actor Dira Paes, who broke out in John Boorman’s “The Emerald Forest.”
Also in the cut is David Schurmann (“Little Secret”), who and Jean-Pierre Dutilleux whose 1976 “Raoni,” scored and was Oscar nomination and was championed by Marlon Brando.
Mascaró will direct “The Other Side of the Sky,” produced by Globo Filmes and Desvía Produções, a fantasy drama set in an alternative reality Brazil where anyone over 80 is confined to a colony, to help Brazil’s economic recovery. Rocha is prepping “Elza,” a doc portrait of legendary singer Elza Soares, Paes has in development her directorial debut,...
- 5/18/2023
- by John Hopewell and Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
A few months ago, on Jan. 1, more than 150 thousand people swarmed the savannah-based, landlocked city of Brasília — an unusual flock since beach cities like Rio are usually top destinations around the holidays. Yet Brazil’s capital was busy as ever, starting with its buzzy main avenue: By the Esplanada area, a massive crowd watched a series of concerts featuring dozens of artists from all over the country. Hip-hop heads with soccer jerseys stood next to old-school Tropicalia fans, couples holding babies shouted along to baile funk hits with groups of kids,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Felipe Maia
- Rollingstone.com
Above: Light in the TropicsOne moment in Paula Gaitán’s seventh feature, Light in the Tropics, which premiered in Berlin in the Forum section, contains a visual key to the entire work. It’s an inverted image of the vast landmass, created by the camera obscura. Gaitán’s ambitious project draws not so much on literal parallels as loose continuities between the environs of contemporary New York and the Hudson Valley and Brazil’s Mato Grosso, including Pantanal, and up the Xingu River, into the Amazon. That continuity between two vastly distant locations is established mostly through the experiences of the areas’ indigenous communities. It’s also a connection that envisions a symbolic line leading from today’s artists—particularly a young sculptor featured in the New York part—to the expedition by the Russo-Prussian doctor, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, and his artsy stragglers, into the Amazon, in 1824. The varied group included the Swiss-French inventor,...
- 3/9/2020
- MUBI
A drama set in a Brazilian dancehall over the course of a single night is a delight, says Jason Solomons
The week's hidden gem is at the Ica, a lovely Brazilian film set during a single night in a São Paulo dancehall, from doors opening to lights out. The music is superb – singer Elza Soares plays a local cabaret star – and the camerawork by Walter Carvalho thrilling, proving you don't need 3-D for a fully immersive experience. We get right in among the dancers and their various stories of ageing, loneliness, love and dancing.
World cinemaJason Solomons
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The week's hidden gem is at the Ica, a lovely Brazilian film set during a single night in a São Paulo dancehall, from doors opening to lights out. The music is superb – singer Elza Soares plays a local cabaret star – and the camerawork by Walter Carvalho thrilling, proving you don't need 3-D for a fully immersive experience. We get right in among the dancers and their various stories of ageing, loneliness, love and dancing.
World cinemaJason Solomons
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- 7/3/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
This samba-fuelled slice-of-life set in a old-style Brazilian dancehall is an entertaining, and occasionally heart-rending, film, says Andrew Pulver
This affectionate tribute to old-style Brazilian dancehalls is powered by a cheerful samba soundtrack, and the participation of a seemingly ageless Elza Soares, who belts out numbers in the guise of a low-rent house band crooner. Against this pungently authentic backdrop we are guided through a somewhat fraught evening in one such dancehall in Sao Paulo: the clientele are defiantly of a certain age, but still hanging in there for love and action. Stories interlock and criss-cross: Marici (Cássia Kiss) is expecting a final consummation with roué Eudes (Stepan Nercessian), but he is fatally distracted by the decades-younger Bel (Maria Flor). Bel has only turned up to help her DJ boyfriend Marquinhos (Paulo Vilhena) who, despite the age gap, is neurotically threatened by Eudes's old-school moves. This is merely a selection:...
This affectionate tribute to old-style Brazilian dancehalls is powered by a cheerful samba soundtrack, and the participation of a seemingly ageless Elza Soares, who belts out numbers in the guise of a low-rent house band crooner. Against this pungently authentic backdrop we are guided through a somewhat fraught evening in one such dancehall in Sao Paulo: the clientele are defiantly of a certain age, but still hanging in there for love and action. Stories interlock and criss-cross: Marici (Cássia Kiss) is expecting a final consummation with roué Eudes (Stepan Nercessian), but he is fatally distracted by the decades-younger Bel (Maria Flor). Bel has only turned up to help her DJ boyfriend Marquinhos (Paulo Vilhena) who, despite the age gap, is neurotically threatened by Eudes's old-school moves. This is merely a selection:...
- 7/2/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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