“In this existentialist delight, whimsical and profound,
the mundane gains new enlightenment.””
MY DARLING SUPERMARKET / MEU QUERIDO SUPERMERCADO
A film by Tali Yankelevich
(Brazil/Denmark, 2019, 80 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
A Cinema Tropical release
“Grocery store employees, today’s essential workers, get star treatment in My Darling Supermarket (made prior to the pandemic). Set within a bright, colorful supermercado in São Paulo, Brazil, this charming, funny documentary glides through a seemingly endless array of vibrantly designed shelves and displays, but it’s the store’s employees who take center stage. Rodrigo (in bread) discusses quantum physics and parallel universes; Santo (a forklift operator) builds video game cities; a security officer tracks possible shoplifters on closed circuit TVs (“Two suspects near the condensed milk!”); Ivan (a baker) is into Manga cosplay; and then there’s the artist who lovingly paints the prices. A panoply of individuals with fears, hopes, and questions about their place in the universe are celebrated in a quirky portrait that juxtaposes their idiosyncrasies with the assumed mundanity of bringing food to our table.” —Film Forum
Official selection — International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Official selection — MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight
Official selection — Visions du Réel
Official selection — Edinburgh Film Festival
Official selection — Thessaloniki Film Festival
Official selection — Guadalajara Film Festival
Official selection — DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Official selection — Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
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