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  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in ...

Written By: João Paulo Miranda Maria

  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 27 m

Memory House

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Summary In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in ...

Written By: João Paulo Miranda Maria

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90
Sep 8, 2021
Memory House is, above all, a fable about identities lost and cultural artifacts in need of recovery that doubles as a thrilling and foreboding ride designed to rattle audiences at home and abroad with equal verve.
By Manuel Betancourt FULL REVIEW
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Aug 31, 2021
Memory House, much like Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Donnelles’s recent Bacarau, makes no secret of its disgust for neocolonialism, capitalism, or fascism, though it’s more skeptical of violent resistance even when exercised in self-defense.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
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Apr 25, 2022
Co-writer and director João Paulo Miranda Maria serves up a limited-dialogue parable of racism, cultures clashing and the violence that ripples from that in this film. Using limited dialogue, just a handful of characters and behavior that ranges from intolerant to monstrous cruelty, he parks Traditional Brazil squarely in the path of outsiders-with-a-different-agenda Brazil.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
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Sep 2, 2021
Trapped in a hopelessly alienating world, Cristovam would rather buck than surrender; a fatal end would seem inevitable, but wisely, Miranda Maria pulls back the reins with a glimpse of empathy that teases a potential way forward.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW

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Production Company BeBossa Entertainment, Maneki Films, Cinema Caipira, Canal Brasil
Release Date Sep 3, 2021
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://filmmovement.com/memory-house
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Awards

Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
ABC Cinematography Award
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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