Filmlist Invisible Life + Arthouse Brasil

Who remembers Four Days In September or Central Station? These were the two films that heralded a kind of renaissance of Brazilian cinema during the 90s. And it's worth noting: These were real audience films in Brazil and also with us! Brazilian customers brought me a stack of import DVDs in the early 00s, some of which became real Kiez blockbusters in the video store. The themes of these films are explicitly Brazilian. And they look great and are filled with real (Brazilian) stars! Since the Cinema Nuvo of the 60s there exists something like a deep longing for "Brasilidade" - the deeply Brazilian one. We know this from Cinema Nuvo, which tried to depict and explain reality. The new cinema does not explain. It observes. We see individual stories like Invisible Life, the great new colorful melodrama by Karim Aïnouz. If you love deep emotions and epic stories, you can run straight to the cinema! It tells the story of two sisters who live in the same city but never meet. Prevented by the mother. You can imagine that there are moments when they meet FAST. Monstrously captivating! Just like the other films from the short list that collects Brazilian Arthaus titles.