Following the - I may call - Minas Gerais neo-realism of Affonso Uchoa (Araby and Hidden Tiger are great films by him representing this wave), Baroness is directed by Araby's assistant director Juliana Antunes. Unfortunately, while repeating qualities such as good filming, very natural acting, and the representation of common low-class people, there is also a striking difference: Baroness is boring and almost lacks events, being mostly empty. Improvisation and naturalism lead to a film almost in the border between fiction and documentary (what is nice, but I am afraid that it did not succeed in providing a significant outcome in either of them).
