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  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook, and it’s here that Araby begins — or, rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entrie...

Directed By: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa

Written By: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa

  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 37 m

Araby

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
82
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
6.5
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Summary Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook, and it’s here that Araby begins — or, rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entrie...

Directed By: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa

Written By: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
82
88% Positive
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
82
88% Positive
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Jun 5, 2018
An intriguingly structured, multilayered road movie in which an ordinary working-class dude looks back over a nation-wandering decade of his life, this second collaboration by the writer-directors is a cumulatively engrossing and ultimately very moving work of clear-eyed political intent.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
91
Jul 16, 2018
Judiciously gritty in its specifics, Araby’s scope is ecumenical.
By Leonardo Goi FULL REVIEW
90
Aug 9, 2018
A migrant worker’s journal opens up a world for a disaffected teenager, and us, in Araby, a beautifully turned Brazilian movie that carries on as if a social-cause documentary and a folk song confessional had entered into a poignant embrace.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 21, 2018
Araby stays so grounded in acutely observed behavior, while still sufficiently elliptical in its storytelling methods, that it successfully avoids getting up on any particular soapbox.
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80
Jun 21, 2018
Thanks to Mr. de Sousa’s superb performance, the movie often convincingly portrays not just the exploited condition of laborers such as Cristiano, but the nagging sadness of life itself.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 21, 2018
A soundtrack of folk/country classics takes the edge off, but make no mistake: This is a beautiful bummer, giving voice to someone who’s barely a number, but only to remind us that most of us are OK not thinking about numbers at all.
By Matt Prigge FULL REVIEW
58
Jun 19, 2018
The film is far less than the sum of its possibilities.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
6.5
75% Positive
3 Ratings
0% Mixed
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25% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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75% Positive
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0% Mixed
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25% Negative
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Production Company Katásia Filmes, Vasto Mundo
Release Date Jun 22, 2018
Duration 1 h 37 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/arabiafilme/
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Awards

Prêmio Guarani
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

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