Why (Not) Brazil?
Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil
France
2004
92 Min
Color
2.35:1
French
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process? —nonstop.tv
Laetitia Masson, an acclaimed actress, director and screenwriter, was born on June 18, 1966 in Epinal, France. After studying literature she took up studies at the Paris film school FEMIS in 1988. In 1993, Masson made the breakthrough from newcomer with her short film Nulle Part to promising director with To Have (Or Not), (En Avoir (Ou Pas) in 1995. Her latest film Guilty (Coupable, 2008) screened at the Berlin Film Festival 2008. —Berlinale