The poor depiction of a very touching story. Unfortunately Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles is very disappointing: the script is unconvincing, the cinematography is ordinary, most performances are very poor and the narrative has many errors. Continue Reading

From the idyllic beaches of Buzios comes another ripple of new Brazilian cinema, this time in the form of director Heitor Dhalia’s latest film, Adrift… Continue Reading

Out of Tune (“Os Desafinados”), the latest feature of  Brazilian director Walter Lima Júnior, opened last Friday the Barbican’s ‘Cinema of Brazil – Music and Rhythm’ film festival . The 128 minutes long film shot on Super 16mm had a cast made of Brasilian TV and cinema stars, including Rodrigo Santoro (Love Actually), Selton Melo (Jean Charles, although being a half UK production, not yet released in the UK), Angelo Paes Leme, Claudia Abreu and  Alessandra Negrini.

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Cult Brazilian director’s film is released on DVD and features in a retrospective of his work at the Barbican
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