Brazil

Private Desert

By Sumner Forbes | September 2022

It’s easy to take for granted living in an accepting environment. Yet, even in so-called progressive nations, millions are still forced to…

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It's easy to take for granted living in an accepting environment. Yet, even in so-called progressive nations, millions are still forced to live a lie when...

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CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! The genre-bending and exquisite Medusa, from Brazilian auteur Anita Rocha da Silveira, is Suspiria combined...

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What if Walt Disney was actually able to build his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) and establish its own governance, economy, and...

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A series of roadblocks face a black detective investigating a murder in Paulo Nascimento's thriller, Breathless (Sem Fôlego). No, this isn't the United...

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In Gustavo Milan's short film, Under the Heavens (Seiva Bruta), a young woman, Marta (Samantha Castillo), is walking along an empty Brazilian highway....

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João Paulo Miranda Maria's Memory House is unlike anything I've seen all year. Taking from Brazilian folklore, filmmaker Miranda Maria follows one...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! The directorial debut of Lázaro Ramos, Executive Order, is based on a stage play. The danger of adapting a work from...

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What Hollywood does so badly is take a decent idea for a movie and screw it up by adding an A, B, but most likely C-list star to it. Now, rather than focus...

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Brazilian filmmaking legend Hector Babenco passed away in 2016. The man directed a dozen features over the span of 40+ years, including the cult...

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A gay bathhouse in Rio De Janeiro is the stage for the gentle human drama of Copa 181. That’s the address men go to for anonymous sex, a stage show, a...

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