Walter Salles is wise enought to get out of the way, and let characters and setting ground a complex, confusing moment in the lives of a family.
An astounding performance by Fernanda Torres, inhabiting a façade of business as usual stoicism while pulsing with seething rage and harrowing fear.
It is a real exercise in the dignity due to the victims of political violence, in that they're not held up as a symbol, but are shown experiencing the day to day of pain, without a readymade catharsis waiting in the third act.
