Film of the Week: BARONESA

BARONESA
A film by Juliana Antunes
(Brazil, 2017, 70 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

“Juliana Antunes’s debut feature offers an evocative, rigorously composed glimpse at life in the favelas of Belo Horizonte. Baronesa follows friends Leidiane and Andreia as their conversation flows freely across backyards and within cramped quarters, addressing the facts of life: family, drugs, sex, death. With its almost exclusively female crew and nonprofessional cast, Baronesa is structurally simple yet multilayered in its resonance, recalling the films of Pedro Costa as it establishes Antunes as a formidable new voice in Brazilian cinema.” —Film at Lincoln Center

Now streaming on DA Americas





 
 
 
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