7th
Annual Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures,
Cultures, and Linguistics
Brazilian Film Series
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Carandiru
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May, 9. Monday @ Phelps 3515, 6h30
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Brazil, 2003. Dir.: Hector Babenco. 146 min. (w/ English
subtitles)
Film based on real life experiences of doctor Drauzio Varella inside dreadful State penitentiary Carandiru, in São Paulo, Brazil, while he was doing a social work of Aids prevention. There he found hundreds of convicts living under degrading conditions. The situation came to a climax in 1992, when in order to smother a rebellion, police force killed 111 men. |
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Edifício Master
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May, 10. Tuesday @ Phelps 3505, 6h30
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Brazil, 2002. Dir.: Eduardo Coutinho. 110 min. (w/ English
subtitles)
For one week, Eduardo Coutinho and his team talked to 27 residents in an enormous building in Copacabana. Amongst these are a middle-aged couple who met through the classified ads in a newspaper, a call-girl who keeps her daughter and her sister, a retired actor, an ex-football player, and a janitor who suspects that his adopted father, whom he dreams about every night, is his real father. The subject of this documentary is private life in the big city, apartments as a last stronghold of individuality, in addition to emphasizing the fact that to live together in one and the same place does not ensure that a community will be formed. |
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Houve Uma Ves Dois Verões
(aka Two Summers)
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May, 11. Wednesday @ Phelps 1160, 6h30
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Brazil, 2003. Dir.: Jorge Furtado. (w/ English subtitles)
A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer. |
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Narradores de Javé
(aka The Storytellers)
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May, 12. Thursday @ Chem 1171, 6h30
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Brazil, 2003.
Dir.: Eliane Caffé (w/ English subtitles) The illiterate population of the small town of Javé charge Antônio Biá with the mission of writing the story of the town, in an attempt to stop the construction of a hydropower dam that would destroy the village. They start remembering (or making up) great local personalities IMDb entry All Movie Guide Entry Official Site |