Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
What does it mean to have a penthouse in poverty-filled Brazil? Interweaving resident interviews and vistas from above, High-Rise is an analysis of the dominant Brazilian classes through a dialogue with the inhabitants of nine penthouse apartments in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife.
A bold top-down look at class in Brazil, these are revealing interviews with residents of penthouse apartments in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Recife, the elite and privileged few in an otherwise impoverished country.
What does it mean to have a penthouse in poverty-filled Brazil? Interweaving resident interviews and vistas from above, High-Rise is an analysis of the dominant Brazilian classes through a dialogue with the inhabitants of nine penthouse apartments in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife.
