This cinematic poem blurs fiction and documentary using exquisitely textured and sensual black-and-white photography while following Expedito, a silent, brooding 65-year-old man. Each day, he brings flowers to his mother’s grave, returns to his apartment to take his medicine and watches construction workers create a gigantic, noisy monstrosity across the street. Then he wanders, gazing obsessively at beautiful women and listening through his earphones to music and talk radio, as the alienating chaos of Rio de Janeiro registers on his nervous system. Finally, he seeks escape through live music at nightclubs he frequents. Writer-director Eryk Rocha (son of Brazil’s ‘60s cinema legend Glauber Rocha) and producer Walter Salles create a haunting, surprising, and ultimately upbeat tale of a man alone in a buzzing city. “The pain of passion has no explanation,” one lyric the man hears says. “You must suffer to know what is deep inside. –Telluride Film Festival