by NaraArt & Culture
by Nara
BRILLIANT BRAZILIAN CINEMA
It's normal for people to think that in general the Brazilian films have a very good history but don't have a good production, special effects and they tend to find this in Hollywood productions...It's the time to change it!!!
The latest Brazilian films have a wonderful production and are better than Hollywood because they mix very good special effects with a reality, Brazilian and the world reality and don't relate only to the fantastic histories... so below you'll find some things about very good films, just have a look!
BICHO DE SETE CABEÇAS: (BRAINSTORM)
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This is a trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life before his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs in his jacket's pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Neto is a teenager that wants emotions and freedom, who has his small rebellious actions that are misunderstood by his father. The father thinks that he has lost the control over his son, sends him to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institutional system. The film has documentary language, this language used by the director gives this movie the sensation of reality. In the mental institution Neto is forced mature. The transformation that he goes through changes his relation with his father.
Actors
Rodrigo
Santoro (Neto)
Othon Bastos (Seu Wilson)
Cássia Kiss (Mãe de Neto)
Jairo Mattos
Caco Ciocler
Luís Miranda
Valéria Alencar
Altair Lima
Linneu Dias
Gero Camilo
Marcos Cesana
distribution: Riofilme
CAST
Director: Laís Bodanzky
screenplay: Luís Bolognesi
Productor Maria Ionescu e Fabiano Gullane
music: André Abujamra
cinematography: Hugo Kovensky
: Caio Gullane
artistic production: Marcos Pedroso
edition: Jacopo Quadri e Letizia Caudullo
CIDADE DE DEUS (CITY OF GOD)
Based on the best-seller de Paulo Lins, the directors Fernando Meirelles e Katia Lund searched a wonderful cast of young actors of culture ONGs the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro to show a history like much of what they live or look at every day.The narrator is Buscapé (Alexandre Rodrigues), a black boy, who saw the beginning of the area Cidade de Deus and its fast transformation with a new power of drug traffic. His friends entered in the world of crime, starting as small thieves changing to drug dealers and killers. Buscapé is like many Brazilian boys who want to change their life but don't know how. The dream of Buscapé is to become a photographer but while he is living in the outskirts the main preucupation is his life.Buscapé shows the day by day of the outskirts where the violence sounds like endless and his eyes are lenses, which is essencial for his future.
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CAST
director: Fernando Meirellesd
screenplay: Bráulio Mantovani, based on the novel of Paulo Lins
Productor: Walter Salles
Music: Antônio Pinto e Ed Côrtes
cinematography César Charlone
artistic director: Tulé Peake
Edition Daniel Rezende
actors
Matheus Nachtergaele (Sandro Cenoura)
Seu Jorge (Mané Galinha)
Alexandre Rodrigues (Buscapé)
Leandro Firmino da Hora (Zé Pequeno)
Roberta Rodrigues (Berenice)
Phellipe Haagensen (Bene)
Jonathan Haagensen (Cabeleira)
Douglas Silva (Dadinho)
Jefechander Suplino (Alicate)
Alice Braga (Angélica)
Emerson Gomes (Barbantinho)
Édson Oliveira (Barbantinho - adulto)
Luis Otávio (Buscapé - criança)
Maurício Marques (Cabeção)
ABRIL DESPEDAÇADO ( BEHIND THE SUN)
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| In April of 1910, in the desertic geography of the Brazilian outback we find Tonho (Rodrigo Santoro)and his family.Tonho has a question,because the same time that his father (José Dumont) orders he kill who killed his brother, a rivel family, he know that if he revenges, he wiil die. Nervous he start to question the family violence, the violence as a tradition |
| CAST: productor:Arthur Cohn director: Walter Sales ACTORS: |
(Father)
Rita Assemany
(Mother)
Flavia Marco
Antonio
(Clara)
Rodrigo Santoro
(Tonho
Luiz Carlos
Vasconcelos
(Salustiano)
Ravi Ramos
Lacerda
(Pacu)
LAVOURA ARCAICA (TO THE LEFT ON THE FATHER)
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Lavoura arcaica is the oposit history of the
perfect son André is this son, he went out of his house and his
mother ordered his brother Pedro ( her older son)
cath André to their house. We can know why
André went out of his houses when appear his memory, we
can see that his father is very severe and his mom very
protect. André decide don´t respect anyone low and start
to love ( sex love) his sister.He came back and
begginig a new trouble.
CAST
Director Luiz Fernando Carvalho
screenplay Luiz Fernando Carvalho
cinematograph: Walter Carvalho
director of art: Yurika Yamasaki
clothes Beth Filipecki
Caracterização: Marlene Moura
Music: Marco Antônio Guimarães
search of cast: Raquel Couto
pruductor: Luiz Fernando Carvalho e VideoFilmes
Patrocínio: Credicard
ACTORS:
Raul Cortez
Selton Mello
Juliana Carneiro da Cunha
Leonardo Medeiros
Mônica Nassif
Christiana Kalache
Renata Rizek
Caio Blat
BY NARA SILVA DE ALMEIDA
