Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the movement called "Cinema Novo", with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
The film was banned for years by Glauber's family, since it includes scenes of Glauber's funeral. While alive, Glauber was victim of the same problem: his short Di Cavalcanti (1977) was forbidden by D...
Love adventures of a young man living in Rio de Janeiro, in the '60s, refusing to accept the establishment.
A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.
Gertrudes (Norma Bengell) is a middle aged lady who rents two of the rooms in her spacious upper middle class apartment (breakfast and plenty of companionship included) to two youngish women: the sensual thirty-something Madalena, and the apparently tormented twenty-something Lucia. Madalena is realistic - a fun-loving, sexually active night owl - who contrasts with Lucia, a dr...
Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years later, still haunted by the past, he undergoes a crisis when he learns his cousin had been arrested in Santiago, and quarrels with his family when he decides to know his country and the details of his past.
Brazilia Festival of Brazil...
The Sputmik is missing and a hillbilly thinks that it had just fell in his backyard. He becomes famous and he and his wife are introduced to the 'High Society' while the CIA, the KGB and the French wants to lay their hands in the Sputnik, by all means necessary. That's the plot. What happens in the movie in fact is a series of jokes about the Brazilian High Society and how the ...
Mulheres de Cinema presents several actresses that embodied the Brazilian female myth in different periods. Key director Humberto Mauro, the only male presence in the film, talks about actress and producer Carmen Santos. The women move freely through the structure of a film. In the images of her inner vision, the woman figures herself out, discusses herself, frees herself. And ...
Newly wed arrives at her husband's family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law's room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She's only to return seventeen years later, and sick.
Paulistano de meia-idade declara seu amor e ódio pela cidade de Sao Paulo. Por intermédio da atual amante, relembra os casos amorosos e as mulheres que passaram por sua vida.
So Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1982 Won APCA Trophy Best Actress (Melhor Atriz)
Norma Bengell
Tied with Renée de Vielmond and Dina Sfat for Eros, O D...
本片围绕着四个角色进行。晚上离开妻儿出门的卢悉奥(Luisinho)和刚结束一段感情生活的纳尔逊(Nelson)驾驶着汽车四处寻乐,以此打发晚上的空虚和无聊。几经周折之后他们找了两名三陪女子回到房间。整个夜晚四个人之间的关系不断发生微妙变化。该片前75分钟全部为夜景,配以略带诡异感觉的钢琴曲,整部作品偏现代。
沃尔特·雨果·克霍里(Walter Hugo Khouri)(1929.10.21-2003.6.27)号称是巴西电影界的伯格曼，《空洞的夜》（1964）《燃烧的躯体》（1966）和《好色之徒》（1968）是他的人性三部曲，在他的影片中充满着存在主义的疑问、角色复杂内心的独白和现代主义的电影语言。本片是向安东尼奥尼《蚀》的致敬之作，入围了1965年法国戛纳电影节，是一部精致的巴西新浪潮艺术电影。
