There’s a Ghost in Me: Dutra and Rojas Explore the Reductive State of Capitalism
The changing socioeconomic landscape in Brazil has had a direct impact on the burgeoning cinematic landscape as well. The country’s move into a capitalist economy has resulted in significant shifts, whether that is what defines a sense of neighborhood and community in recent offerings from Sergio Bianchi with The Tenants (2009) or Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Neighboring Sounds (2012) or the opportunities afforded members of the working class causing unavoidable fissures in traditional behaviors, like The Second Mother (2015). In Hard Labor, the directorial debut of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, gender and class expectations are bungled in unexpected ways, where social upsets reveal the rotting infrastructure from within. Filled with allegorical instances, the striking debut unfolds with the delirious menace one would expect from a horror film, yet stays invested in the daily banalities of aching social reminders of limitations.
The changing socioeconomic landscape in Brazil has had a direct impact on the burgeoning cinematic landscape as well. The country’s move into a capitalist economy has resulted in significant shifts, whether that is what defines a sense of neighborhood and community in recent offerings from Sergio Bianchi with The Tenants (2009) or Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Neighboring Sounds (2012) or the opportunities afforded members of the working class causing unavoidable fissures in traditional behaviors, like The Second Mother (2015). In Hard Labor, the directorial debut of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, gender and class expectations are bungled in unexpected ways, where social upsets reveal the rotting infrastructure from within. Filled with allegorical instances, the striking debut unfolds with the delirious menace one would expect from a horror film, yet stays invested in the daily banalities of aching social reminders of limitations.
- 30/10/2015
- por Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
DVD Release Date: May 15, 2012
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Global Film Initiative
Marat Descartes watches his neighborhood turn ugly in The Tenants.
Directed by Sergio Bianchi, The Tenants is a 2009 drama-thriller film from Brazil that zeroes in on the tensions that mount in a once-tranquil neighborhood when the wrong kind of neighbors move into development.
Despite a recent wave of violent crime in the city, manual laborer and night student Valter (Marat Descartes) lives a relatively content life with wife (Ana Carbatti) and two children in working-class São Paulo. But when three young criminals move in next door, a bunker mentality sets in and Valter soon discovers he is not the only one perversely affected by the mounting chaos of a city under siege, or the unsettling presence of his new neighbors.
The Tenants (or Os Inquilinos in its native Portuguese) played a host of film festivals in North and South America...
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Global Film Initiative
Marat Descartes watches his neighborhood turn ugly in The Tenants.
Directed by Sergio Bianchi, The Tenants is a 2009 drama-thriller film from Brazil that zeroes in on the tensions that mount in a once-tranquil neighborhood when the wrong kind of neighbors move into development.
Despite a recent wave of violent crime in the city, manual laborer and night student Valter (Marat Descartes) lives a relatively content life with wife (Ana Carbatti) and two children in working-class São Paulo. But when three young criminals move in next door, a bunker mentality sets in and Valter soon discovers he is not the only one perversely affected by the mounting chaos of a city under siege, or the unsettling presence of his new neighbors.
The Tenants (or Os Inquilinos in its native Portuguese) played a host of film festivals in North and South America...
- 16/05/2012
- por Laurence
- Disc Dish
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