New Hampshire Film Festival 2025 Official Selection
Telluride by the Sea 2025 feature
Four Academy Award Nominations, including Best Picture, Actor, International Film
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Awards or not, it’s quite the piece of cinematic gold. -London Evening Standard
This smart, brutal, often funny thriller uses the travails of one ordinary man to capture a reactionary era in its daily realities and surreal absurdities, its public cruelty and private decency. -NPR
Superbly filmed, and also works as a heartfelt tribute to the cinema with which Mendonça Filho grew up. -Los Angeles Times
There’s plenty of suspense here, but also a strong strain of gallows humour running through the serpentine storyline as if to pay tribute to the benefits of absurdism as a survival strategy, and Mendonça Filho has done a great job evoking the 1970s. -Sydney Morning Herald
It’s not just a thriller. This is a film intimately concerned with identity and lineage, with what has been forgotten and what needs to be remembered. Go see it. No need to be a film critic either. -New Statesman
R, 160min
