Pictures of Ghosts
aka Retratos Fantasmos
First screened in December 2024

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Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho. Three-part documentary linking Filho's development as a filmmaker, movie culture across decades in Recife, Brazil, and that city's larger reconfigurations of space, structure, and community. Screenplay: Kleber Mendonça Filho.

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Photo © 2023 CinemaScópio Productions / Vitrine Filmes, © 2024 Grasshopper Film

In Brief: Layered memoir and social history of Recife, filtered through the vibrancy and decline of its cinemas. Lovely.

VOR: ④  More inventive in focus than technique; root ideas and arguments aren't new. But the sinuous expansion from personal to public feels fresh.

Grade: B+

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