Araby
First screened in December 2018
Directors: Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans. Cast: Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Gláucia Vandeveld, Renata Cabral, Renan Rovida, Wederson Neguinho, Adriano Araújo, José Maria Amorim, Sinara Teles, Robson Vieira, Mauro Xavier, Alexandre Souza, Renato Novaes, Anna Campos, Gabriela Luiza, Débora Guimarães, Kátia Aracelle, Carlos Francisco, Janaína Morse, Osvaldo Pires de Lima, Marcos Rossingnoli, Ana Dos Santos. Screenplay: Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans.

Twitter Capsule: aka Unhappy as Lazzaro. Musical, mercurial picaresque of an itinerant worker. Quiet but expansive imagination is a real feat.

VOR:   Holds the intimate and the epic in tricky but potent tension. Captures epochal experiences of drift and marginality, but in curiously mythic tones.



Photo © 2017 Katásia Filmes/Vasto Mundo,
© 2018 Grasshopper Film

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A


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