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Kleber Mendonça Filho navigates Brazil’s painful past to paint a loving portrayal of a place and its people in this slow-burning and ridiculously entertaining political thriller.

It’s carnival week in 1977 and Marcelo, a widower on the run, arrives in Recife hoping to reunite with his son. He finds refuge in a resistance commune run by an impossibly charismatic 70-year-old woman, but soon chaos catches up with him. Unafraid of playful genre-bending detours and expertly directed by Filho (Bacurau, Aquarius), this sweaty, sun-drenched and masterfully acted ride is always grounded in love – for Brazil and for cinema.

Portuguese Language with English Subtitles