User Reviews

Very good, a mix of documentary and fiction, it sinned in some aspects, such as, for example, the lack of connection between the cinephile and the film, some situations were left on the screen, they could have made a narrative, discriminating what was real / staged or perhaps the justification of the situations that occurred, there were some good testimonies, beautiful images, with the best of our Brazil, its people, its beliefs and its traditions... involved... Nine stories take place between Christmas and Carnival, Brazil's sabbatical year... But it is semantically beautiful (meaning and sense)...

The film consists in nine at least apparantly independent segments (synopsis mentions they all happen in Northeast and the stories are held in different moments from Christmas to Carnival). While there is clearly an aesthetic concern and pretty nice cinematography, the intention seems quite hermetic and enigmatic, and the outcome is weird. We may think this movie as an experimental one, with some segments seeming more a videoclip (including the only one that is animated, and the one about religion) and others that may intend to re-visit Cinema Novo. There are some either clearly ficional or documentary segments, and others which are hard to fit or are simply neither of them. Mostly, segments seem unfinished or undeveloped. Perhaps they wanted to include too many excessively short films inside a feature-length production that could not be too long. It was tough to watch it until the end.