01, 15 & 29 October ai??i?? Brazilian Cinema @ CineClub Brazil

27 Sep, 2014

By Editorial Culturart Brazil
Translated by Tim Phedon

The CineClub Brazil Project has featured for several years at the Brazilian embassy, and now returns with weekly Brazilian film screenings.
Every Wednesday, the embassy will be open to welcome members of the public interested in Brazilian film, each film with English subtitles.
If, as a reader of Culturart Brazil, you are learning Portuguese or have any interest in the subject, this is a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in Brazilian culture and even meet new people at the screenings. Generally, the films are classics with other recent releases.

@ Embassy of Brazil Ai??(14-16 Cockspur Steet, SW1Y 5BL)
Nearest StationAi?? Charing Cross
FREE

Have a look the programming below:

REACHING FOR THE MOON (Flores Raras) – 1 OCT 2014Ai?? | 6.30pm
Based on the true love story ofAi??Elizabeth BishopAi??andAi??Lota de Macedo Soares.
Frustrated poetAi??Elizabeth BishopAi??travels to Brazil and encounters the beguiling architectAi??Lota de Macedo Soares. Initial hostilities make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishopai??i??s relationship to the world around her. Anchored by magnificent lead performances fromAi??Miranda OttoAi??andAi??GlA?ria Pires,Ai??Reaching for the MoonAi??is an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration, wherever and however you find it.
2013 | 118 minutes | Produced by Paula Barreto and Lucy BarretoAi??| Language: Portuguese and English |Ai??Directed byAi??Bruno Barreto

CITY OF MEN (Cidade dos Homens) -Ai?? 15 OCT 2014Ai?? | 6.30pm
In director Paulo Morelli’s follow-up to Fernando Meirelles’s Oscar-nominated City of God, 18-year-old best friends Acerola and Laranjinha are struggling to come to terms with the pressures of manhood in the midst of a bloody neighborhood gang war. They have been raised without their fathers and each discovers facts that will compromise their solid friendship.
2007 | 106 minutes | Produced byAi??Guel Arraes, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Bel Berlinck, Fernando Meirelles and Paulo Morelli | Language: Portuguese |Ai??Directed byAi??Paulo Morelli

DRAINED (O Cheiro do Ralo) – 29 OCT 2014Ai?? | 6.30pm
LourenAi??o is a lonely pawn shop owner. His work has made him insensitive to the suffering of those who desperately seek to sell him their personal possessions. LourenAi??o’s lack of emotions makes him deal with the world as a collection of objects to be bought. He begins to play power games with his customers, and derives pleasure from it.
2006 | 112 minutes | Produced byAi??GeraAi??A?o ConteA?do, Primo FilmesAi??& RT FeaturesAi??| Language: Portuguese |Ai??Directed byAi??Heitor Dhalia