The Edge of Democracy

Name: The Edge of Democracy
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: June 19, 2019
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Carlos Henrique Gaguim, Deltan Dallagnol, Dilma Rousseff, Eduardo Cunha, Jair Bolsonaro

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Netflix | Release Date: June 19, 2019 | TV-14

Starring: Carlos Henrique Gaguim, Deltan Dallagnol, Dilma Rousseff, Eduardo Cunha, Jair Bolsonaro, Jean Wyllys, José Eduardo Cardozo, Jovair Arantes, Li An, Lindbergh Farias, Lula, Marcelo Odebrecht, Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, Michel Temer, Nestor Cerveró, Paulo Maluf, Paulo Roberto Costa, Petra Costa, Renan Calheiros, Sergio Moro

Summary: A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis - the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. Combining unprecedented access to leaders past and present, including Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, with accounts of her own family's complex political and industrialA cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis - the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. Combining unprecedented access to leaders past and present, including Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, with accounts of her own family's complex political and industrial past, filmmaker Petra Costa witnesses their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains. [Netflix]… Expand

Director: Petra Costa

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 121 min

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A.O. Scott

Jun 18, 2019

Though she is a scrupulous and dogged digger-up of hidden facts and a thoughtful interpreter of public events, Costa hasn’t produced a work of objective journalism or detached historical scholarship so much as a personal reckoning with her nation’s past and present. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Jun 18, 2019

What “Edge” is especially good at is detailing how Costa gradually began to see things differently, to see the corruption investigation as an attempt by the oligarchy to reassert itself, to take power via a kind of legislative/judicial coup because it could not do so by the ballot. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Jun 19, 2019

The Edge of Democracy makes no claims to objectivity. This is documentary cinema in which facts tangle compellingly with feeling, while passages of solemn, stately mood-building split the difference. Read full review

John DeFore

Jun 19, 2019

A mournful but clear-eyed look at one of the many governments on the planet currently either going to or simmering in Hell, Petra Costa's The Edge of Democracy is as much essay film as a primer on Brazil's recent history. Read full review

Steve Pond

Jun 18, 2019

In laying out the facts, Costa is, for the most part, posing a series of sad questions rather than supplying the answers; in truth, she may not know whether she’s documenting a stormy political era or chronicling the end of something. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 16, 2020

The Edge of Democracy won’t convince that “It CAN happen here.” It’ll make you wonder how far down the hole we’ve already tumbled. Read full review

Lawrence Garcia

Jun 18, 2019

The documentary’s scope is so vast, and its subject so dense, that it ends up skimping on details that a lengthy written article would likely lay out more clearly. Read full review

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Renilson42

Jun 20, 2019

Excellent review of the last political facts in Brazil that are bringing it's dark past days to the present. The images, interviews, photography, are amazing and unique.

9 of 21 users found this helpful912

F2105

Feb 11, 2020

Para quem é Brasileiro, esse documentário retrata bem nosso país,e nem adianta invadir e dar nota baixa, o documentário ainda será bom.

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

saurah

Jan 13, 2020

documentários retratam a realidade de uma forma criativa, este retrata de uma forma crua. muito feliz por ter sido indicado ao oscar como melhor documentário

3 of 8 users found this helpful35

lucasmorlim

Jan 19, 2021

The film competed for Oscar in the documentary category, however, it would have better chances if it competes in the category of fiction. It does not reflect an extremely drastic process that the country has gone through, fighting the largest criminal organization it has ever had. It shows,The film competed for Oscar in the documentary category, however, it would have better chances if it competes in the category of fiction. It does not reflect an extremely drastic process that the country has gone through, fighting the largest criminal organization it has ever had. It shows, in fact, a frustrated girl, seeing the dreams that her mother sold her, not resisting reality.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Fabibuq

Jun 21, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lixo, só fala mentira, no Brasil existiu a maior facção criminosa o PT, graças a Deus estamos conseguindo acabar com isso com a ajuda de Moro e de nosso grande presidente Bolsonaro!… Expand

13 of 23 users found this helpful1310

Gamedude051

Feb 19, 2020

Filme planetário de propaganda política, não recomendo acha que o.brasileiro tem.memoria curta.

0 of 4 users found this helpful04

C0rv0

Jul 3, 2019

A compilation of misinformation and misleading left-wing propaganda. Many facts hidden and manipulated. The Brazilians know the truth and this "documentary" does not fit with it .... Detail that the film was funded by one of the companies involved in the corruption scandals.

6 of 13 users found this helpful67

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