VLACC is proud to partner with VIFF to bring to Vancouver audiences the new movie by acclaimed Brazilian director Walter Moreira Salles. 

Date: Saturday, October 5, 2024
Time: 8:45 pm
Location: Vancouver Playhouse | 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC
In Portuguese with subtitles in English.
This is an 18+ presentation

Tickets start at $19

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At a time when power brokers uncomfortably close to home are musing aloud about the merits of authoritarianism, filmmaker Walter Salles is here to remind us of Brazil’s experience of the military dictatorship in the early 1970s. Initially, life seems relatively normal in the happy upper-middle-class household of former congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello). His main concern is that his teenage daughters steer clear of politics. So, wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres) is bewildered when her husband is picked up by armed men one morning. It is the beginning of a long, dark nightmare for her and the family.

Salles (Central Station; Motorcycle Diaries; On the Road) hasn’t made a film for more than a decade, and it’s clear that the 2015 memoir by Paiva’s son, Marcelo, resonated with him deeply. He was 15 in 1971 when the bulk of the film is set, and the period details feel completely lived in and authentic—likewise, the consuming energies of a loving family. But the second half of the movie belongs to Fernanda Torres, who is magnificent as the matriarch and must shoulder the weight of her husband’s disappearance.

In partnership with VIFF