* Originally published in April 2017 at Cinética. VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The specific is dead; long live the specific 1. Moonlight is a tripartite story about the life of Chiron, a boy growing up to be a man in a tough neighborhood in sunny Miami. The film is based on an unproduced play beautifully titled […]
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Jealousy (La Jalousie, 2013), Philippe Garrel
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published in October 2014, at Cinética. The ruin of what was not met by Fábio Andrade Jealousy opens with a shot that is as synthetic as it is grabbing. Of being grabbed: Clothilde (Rebecca Convenant) with her teary eyes focused somewhere beyond the camera, and with a trembling, terribly trembling mouth, […]
In the Shadow of Women (L’ombre des Femmes, 2015), Philippe Garrel
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published in October 2015, at Cinética. Shadowplay One characteristic that has remained remarkably constant in Philippe Garrel’s work is his predilection for setting his films in a gap, an interval between two people’s very distinct experiences of the same relationship. In movies as different as The Birth of Love (1993), […]
A Tale of Love (1995), Trinh T. Minh-ha & Jean-Paul Bourdier
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published in Portuguese in Carla Maia and Luís Felipe Flores (ed.) O Cinema de Trinh T. Minh-ha (2015) Rio de Janeiro: Caixa Cultural. 87-91. A room of one’s own A Tale of Love begins with a wide shot of a mountain under blue sky, covered by dry weed that sways in the […]
Housemaids (Doméstica), by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil, 2012)
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published in Portuguese at Cinética in May 2013 and in English in February 2014, later republished in revised form in Victor Guimarães (ed.), Housemaids (Recife: Desvia, 2014) 22-27. Imponderable dramaturgy When I wrote about Gabriel Mascaro’s 2010 short The Adventures of Paulo Bruscky, one of the notes left out of the final […]