Kleber Mendonça Filho - The Film Verdict

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Charcoal

Posted by Carmen Gray | Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023 |

A dark, absurdist farce of wicked schemes bred of hardship in smalltown Brazil reveals helmer Carolina Markowicz as a bold talent.

Pictures of Ghosts

Posted by Jay Weissberg | May 24, 2023 | Cannes, Cannes 2023, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Spotlight |

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s poetic docu-essay Pictures of Ghost is a passkey to his previous films as well as a personal reflection on his relationship with Recife and cinephilia, but this terrifically edited meditation is also a more universal ode to the way memories become ghosts that inhabit the physical spaces of our lives.