Araby

OFF_FRAME

While the slow introduction to the main story via the notebook feels irrelevant by the end it does set the pace and tone for a meditative, wandering examination of character that provides plenty of moments of subtle revelation. Gentle and unafraid filmmaking that shows a director genuinely curious about the world around them. 4 stars

José Neves

Digital. Indie Lisboa # 4. Although it has a somewhat academic appearance in the way introduces the characters and delays the look in gloomy clichés, from the moment that enters the narration off, the odyssey structure, it finds a direct figuration of the Earth's disinherited ones, always just with its characters-people and their framing in a story without remission. The soundless ending is extraordinary.

Maureen Gueunet

"We don’t want to represent the poor, marginal people as if their lives were only determined by violence or social conditions. We believe that these people can create something and think about more than mere survival. Of course reality can be shitty. We live in a world that make things difficult for poor people, but I believe that as filmmakers, we can sometimes reinvent reality and discover other possibilities"

Henrique Barbosa Justini

- A principal forma das contidas personagens ultrapassarem os planos geométricos, minuciosamente arquitetados, é através da oralidade. A expressão corporal torna-se algo secundário quando a narrativa do que se viveu apresenta uma forma de localizar-se no mundo Os poucos quadros contrapõem uma narrativa inundada de palavras e vivências: um operário q atravessou o interior mineiro conhecendo ofícios, amigos e o amor.

Thiago

Embora o enquadramento busque a perfeição que poderia submeter o olhar ao prazer da forma plástica e o diálogo se arraste para criar uma atmosfera literária, as pessoas mesmas (atores não profissionais), seus rostos, suas músicas, encontros, se sobrepõem e dão a força do filme.

$ROBINROSA$

The trapped condition of unskilled labourers and their expendability. It feels like a testament to the younger generation. There is the moment of realisation, it is short-lived, the body, the labour force, is annihilated and carries on with the written testimony. It is about the awareness of a human condition. There is the reflection and then it is too late for praxis.

Miggy Angel

the ending

Alex Ander 0

centred on marginalised workers, alludes to class struggle several times yet ends disappointingly in indie existentialism