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On Falling 2024
On Falling continues a lineage of films dealing with the Portuguese diaspora. It exceeds that, being ultimately an analysis on apathy and loneliness in working classes.
Without the exhaustiveness of Wang Bing, Laura Carreira creates the image of an isolated woman (Joana Santos in a fantastic performance under the influence of Delphine Seyrig) navigating work, relationships and poverty in a foreign land.
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Central Station 1998
The main critic to Central do Brasil (and Salles' films in general) is how familiar it is with the telenovela and it isn't by chance that the writer of this film, Joao Emanuel Carneiro, later made a name as one of the most important and celebrated names in Brazilian TV.
Understanding where this idea comes from, I can not think of an author like Salles achieving commercial success by going against the public, and living in an intellectual bubble, protected…
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