Maya, Give Me a Title is a sweetheart of a film that makes us feel how wonderful affection among our loved ones is. It inspires us to use art as a way to have fun and communicate with children. The way a father, who is also a filmmaker, manages to make film a part of the presence he wants in his daughter's life is lovely. Although we know it isn't a substitute to real-life presence, we know it's a poetic…
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Blue Moon 2025
Blue Moon is a monologue-driven film, and a very well-written one. If you enjoy this type of storytelling, you’ll quickly be drawn in by its rhythm and by how much we can learn about a character simply by watching him speak—even when the most important details aren’t revealed through his words. Richard Linklater has a particular talent for crafting engaging dialogue, as is evident in his previous work, but this one feels a bit different.
This time, he’s exploring a…
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The Discovery of Brazil 1936
This film may be interesting for seeing the attempt of constructing a nation-identity for young Brazilians. It used to be obligatory in schools for a while. It's nothing but a propaganda of Portugal though, a colonial romantization that puts the relation between the colonizers and the indigenous as friendly as it never was. Very harmful and hegemonic point of view.
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Brave New Land 2000
Brave and raw film portraying the colonization in Brazil. Good historic research to describe a reality that many people conveniently forget. The subjugation of women and the ethnocentrism that is inherent to most colonization proccesses is present here more than I've previously seen in Brazilin cinema. Also, the choice of the director of leaving the guaicurus speak their language without subtitles is pleasantly provocative into making us notice our ignorance on their language, and their history by their own words.…
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