Memory House

Name: Memory House
Genre: Drama
Released: September 3, 2021
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Aline Marta Maia, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Antonio Pitanga, Sam Louwyck, Soren Hellerup

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Film Movement | Release Date: September 3, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Aline Marta Maia, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Antonio Pitanga, Sam Louwyck, Soren Hellerup

Summary: In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in aIn this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house filled with objects reminding him of his origins, Cristovam begins a spiritual and physical metamorphosis. [Film Movement]… Expand

Director: João Paulo Miranda Maria

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Manuel Betancourt

Sep 8, 2021

Memory House is, above all, a fable about identities lost and cultural artifacts in need of recovery that doubles as a thrilling and foreboding ride designed to rattle audiences at home and abroad with equal verve. Read full review

William Repass

Aug 31, 2021

Memory House, much like Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Donnelles’s recent Bacarau, makes no secret of its disgust for neocolonialism, capitalism, or fascism, though it’s more skeptical of violent resistance even when exercised in self-defense. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 25, 2022

Co-writer and director João Paulo Miranda Maria serves up a limited-dialogue parable of racism, cultures clashing and the violence that ripples from that in this film. Using limited dialogue, just a handful of characters and behavior that ranges from intolerant to monstrous cruelty, he parks Traditional Brazil squarely in the path of outsiders-with-a-different-agenda Brazil. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Sep 2, 2021

Trapped in a hopelessly alienating world, Cristovam would rather buck than surrender; a fatal end would seem inevitable, but wisely, Miranda Maria pulls back the reins with a glimpse of empathy that teases a potential way forward. Read full review

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