Charcoal

Original title: Carvão

2022
1h 47m

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César Bordón, Jean Almeida Da Costa, Rômulo Braga, and Maeve Jinkings in Charcoal (2022)

A family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.A family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.A family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.

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7.0/10

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Awards
- 9 wins & 25 nominations total

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Trivia
One of the six films pre-selected by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts to compete for a spot for Best International Film at the 2023 Oscars.

Goofs
During the chicken dinner while Miguel is talking, Jean finishes his plate and shifts back his chair, but after the cut to the opposite side, he has resumed eating, spoon back in hand, from the plate with a piece of chicken on it.

Quotes
Sérgio: [Jairo gives a motorcycle as Sérgio's birthday present] Are you crazy? For me?
Jairo: Of course.
Sérgio: You're always broke. This isn't stolen, is it?
Jairo: No. I had some money saved.
Sérgio: It's beautiful.
Jairo: Do you like it? It's brand new.
Sérgio: I can't keep it. What will I tell Luciana? What will I do with it?
Jairo: What will you do with it? Fuck me.

Crazy credits
The end credits does not contain any music, but instead sounds of footsteps and a working furnace can be heard.

Connections
References Mon ami Joe (1998)

Soundtracks
Noites Traiçoeiras
Written by Carlos Pappae
Performed by Padre Marcelo Rossi

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Featured review

8/10

Layers

Layers and layers. An apparently simple story, a slow pace that can give a false sense that nothing is happening, and a sinister and always interesting atmosphere.

People who are the result of the society they are inserted in. Dreams go hand in hand with repressed desires. Corruption that takes the form of money but tells us much more about moral corruption, corruption of values that has become so natural that even a 9-year-old child doesn't blink an eye.

Impressive work by Carolina Markowicz in her directorial debut in a film she also wrote and developed characters in an incredible way. Not always an easy experience, but always worth it.