Not very linear and extremely well filmed unorthodox film. Its twenty first minutes are composed by overacting and stylish high-contrast black and white cinematography, which, together with the chosen soundtrack, gives to the first part of the movie a unique cartoon-like flavour. When the (first) family killer goes to cinema, image becomes coloured and, still full of overacting and characters dissatisfied with their lives, becomes more a tragicomedy, with other bizarre crimes. Among those crimes, there is a a pannties serial robber (the worst thing in the whole film) and the weirdest - and yet interesting - shootout I have ever seen. Reality, fiction, imagination and news overlap and sometimes the movie have an oneiric or nightmarish atmosphere. One of the sketches (Ana Beatriz Nogueira's) had different possibilities portrayed in the very same film. On the other hand, actress Maria Gladys has multiple characters throughout the movie. Life dissatisfaction, dysfunctional families, lesbian sexuality, and nudity (both male and female) are some core issues. Pure absurd sexploitation situations coexist with more delicate sexual scenes. There are also some scenes which approximate the production to the musical genre. Neville D'Almeida is a filmmaker who has never been afraid of experimenting, creating, trying, making what he wished, doesn's matter if it would be censored, be a commercial failure, receive bad critics or whatever else. While sometimes the outcome may not be good acocording to someone's tastes (I really disliked some of his movies), he is also very able to make unique and unconventional films far from easy formulae, what is an artistic merit. Killed the Family and Went to the Movies, a remake of a 1969 movie by Júlio Bressane, is certainly one of the best of Neville D'Almeida's cinematographic experiments (among his films I have watched so far, it is the best together with Lady on the Bus). However, there is a problemetic issue which I cannot help but criticize: the recurrent joke with sexual harassment is disgusting.
