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  • Grasshopper Film
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Summary Pictures of Ghosts is a multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the urban landscape of Recife, Brazilian coastal capital of Pernambuco: a historical and human territory, examined through the great movie theaters that served as spaces of conviviality during the 20th century. Having hosted dreams a...

Directed By: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Written By: Kleber Mendonça Filho

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2024
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 33 m

Pictures of Ghosts

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
88
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Pictures of Ghosts is a multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the urban landscape of Recife, Brazilian coastal capital of Pernambuco: a historical and human territory, examined through the great movie theaters that served as spaces of conviviality during the 20th century. Having hosted dreams a...

Directed By: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Written By: Kleber Mendonça Filho

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
88
88% Positive
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
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100
Jan 25, 2024
Love suffuses Pictures of Ghosts, a cleareyed, deeply personal and formally inspired rumination on life, death, family, movies and those complicated, invariably haunted places we call home.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
91
Sep 12, 2023
This nostalgic and melancholy trip is also a celebration.
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90
Jan 29, 2024
Pictures of Ghosts is so lovely and alive that, if anything, it only reassures you that movies aren’t going anywhere.
By Alison Willmore FULL REVIEW
85
Jan 16, 2024
Pictures of Ghosts isn’t a timeline but a winding journey through remembrances of things past, and it moves with entrancing gracefulness through a history that’s near and dear to Kleber Filho’s heart.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
81
Jan 26, 2024
Filho is self-reflective, not self-obsessed, and his clear-eyed stance is crucial to the anti-vanity he brings to his examination of his childhood home and youthful obsession.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 9, 2023
As always with Kleber Mendonça Filho, to reflect reality isn’t enough, as cinema has to find its own truth, even if it takes some imagination to get there.
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60
Nov 28, 2023
[A] somewhat bemused memoir-essay about place, cinema and time.
By Phil Hoad FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
7.1
71% Positive
5 Ratings
14% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Production Company Ancine, CinemaScópio Produções, Vitrine Filmes
Release Date Jan 26, 2024
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Awards

SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Festival de Cine de Lima PUCP
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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