Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Caolina Marcowicz
Starring: Erom Cordeiro | Isac Graça | Kauan Alvarenga | Maeve Jinkings | Thomas Aquino
Brett says: “Director Carolina Markowicz follows 2022’s genre-bending plot from CHARCOAL with yet another single-word title film. Similar to that first feature, this film allows audiences to interpret the ominous title to apply to quite a few different plot circumstances. The
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Carolina Markowicz
Starring: Aline Marta Maia | César Bordón | Jean de Almeida Costa | Maeve Jinkings | Rômulo Braga
Brett says: “A kitchen sink drama that cuddles up with SCARFACE? Count me in. CHARCOAL is an anomalous genre bender out of Brazil that is part Tennessee ‘Joanópolis’ Williams and part Mario ‘CV’ Puzo. “Irene and Jairo are wife and
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Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Starring: Carla Ribas | Humberto Carrão | Irandhir Santos | Maeve Jinkings | Sonia Braga | Zoraide Coleto
Chris says: “Although she’s best known for her role in KISS OF THE SPIDER-WOMAN from three decades ago, Sonia Braga delivers a monumental, career-best performance here as Clara, a retired music critic who staunchly refuses to sell her Recife, Brazil
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Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Starring: Abigail Pereira | Juliano Cazarré | Maeve Jinkings | Roberto Birindelli
Bruce says: “NEON BULL is an audacious film involving the lives of a troop Brazilian rodeo workers. The film is testimony to the many contradictions in the human condition – a daredevil rodeo rider has a passion for designing women’s
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