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KEY QUOTES

« a nuanced look at systemic racism in modern Brazil »
                                                                                      Ann-Marie Corvin – Variety

« João Paulo Miranda Maria’s first full-length film melds past and present, realism and fantasy, to
offer a mesmerising symbolic and political immersion into the Brazilian collective subconscious. »

                                                                                 Fabien Lermercier – Cineuropa

« Una inquietante y arriesgada fábula sobre un país que está lidiando con sus peores fantasmas y
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« This dream-like slow-burn drama comes off like a waking nightmare. Maria uses imagery from
Brazilian folklore to deploy a haunting interrogation of colonialism’s treacherous legacy.
This uncompromising tale of one man’s spiritual reawakening is one of the year’s most ferocious
social commentaries. »

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« Rompedora, extraña y extravagante »
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« Es una película dura y compleja, pero tal vez la más importante de todo el Festival Internacional
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« Miranda Maria paints a bleak and unforgiving picture of age and race »
                                                                  Andrew Kendall – Stabroek News

« Memory House is a Haunting, Timely Film »
                                                                              Christopher Cross – Tilt Magazine

« L’approche de Miranda Maria est percutante et travaillée : forte d’images indélébiles et d’une
atmosphère inquiétante, pointant vers un univers singulier et unique, qu’on surveillera de près »

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  Plot: An Indigenrous-Black man from Brazil’s rural north struggles to earn acceptance in his
  community. When he is informed that he must take a wage cut at the milk factory he has long worked
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  for, he finds refuge in an abandoned house.
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  João Paulo Miranda Maria’s debut feature is a perplexing, distanced and often frustrating film about                                      Writers Guild of America (WGA) sets dates,
  how long-held racial stereotypes still remain alive in modern-day Brazil. Meant to be a slow burn, the                                   timelines for 2021 awards
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  film sadly never reaches its full potential and ends up as an incoherent, almost dialogue-free                                            america-wga-sets-dates-timelines-for-2021-
  examination of key social issues but with almost no narrative focus.                                                                     awards/)
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  The film centers on Cristovam (Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous–Black man who now works in the                                             (https://awardswatch.com/author/erik-anderson/)

  south of Brazil, an area that is in better economic shape and always had better job prospects. One day,
  the milk factory he has long worked for informs him that an economic crisis is hitting the country and                                   (https://awardswatch.com/the-2020-cannes-film-
  that he must come to terms with the fact that they can no longer keep paying him his regular wage.                                       festival-is-back-sort-of/)
  Exploiting the fact that Cristovam has nowhere else to go, they force him into accepting this –
  otherwise his pension will be severely impacted.
MEMORY HOUSE a film by João Paulo Miranda Maria - a film by João Paulo Miranda Maria
Outside the factory, life is no different for Cristovam who encounters hatred, racism and attacks from
 members of his community. He soon finds refuge in an abandoned old house in which he discovers
 elements of his past. But even in this abandoned house with no proper utilities, Cristovam still endures
 attacks from neighboring residents who simply do not want him to stay. He soon realizes that he can no                                      Cannes Film Festival
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 longer remain passive and submissive and launches a defense that changes the remainder of his life                                          news/cannes-film-festival-filmnews/)

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 A slow-burn that overstays its welcome, it never truly clicks despite impressive technical credits,                                        cannes-film-festival-is-back-sort-of/)
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 particularly the cinematography. While trying to draw parallels between Cristovam’s own struggles and                                      (https://awardswatch.com/author/erik-anderson/)

 larger issues that still exist in Brazil today, the film never manages to be as interesting as it thinks it is.
 Midway, it becomes difficult to root for Cristovam simply as the character ends up in a loop of
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 repetitive scenes that never progress the narrative. And when the payoff comes at the end, it never truly                                  radio-to-debut-new-season-with-harvey-guillen-
 achieves its desired impact simply because audience interest has not been sustained up to the final                                         michael-varrati-lauren-holt-and-more/)
 showdown.

 A debut feature that is certainly far from being traditional, João Paulo Miranda Maria has created a film
 that may find some local success but needed more narrative clarity and characterization to welcome
 curious audiences interested in understanding the socio-political realities of Brazil at present. As
 Cristovam, Antônio Pitanga is convincing but underused as an ailing man who never truly finds a place
 where he belongs. Supporting performances are almost non-existent, as the film chooses to focus on
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            Memory House
            La ordeña de Brasil
            Por Erick Estrada
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            Memory House es casi un viaje en el tiempo. Joao Paulo Miranda María nos presenta a su (nuestro)
            personaje central Cristovam (Antonio Pitanga) en una muy cruel escena de apertura en la que este hombre
            envejecido a golpe de trabajo es notiEcado de que la empresa que lo contrató va a reducir su sueldo a la
            mitad. Esa empresa propiedad de un grupo de empresarios llegados de la Europa más retrógrada, busca
            sanear sus Enanzas para no generar pérdidas y en consecuencia sacriEca a quienes generan las ganancias.
            El retrato de esta situación minimiza en la pantalla a Cristovam de tal forma que es imposible no sentir la
            tripa revuelta, el enfado que se Eltra por los poros.

            Capitalismo puro, racismo escondido en movidas empresariales, explotación y opresión que encuentran su
            propio símbolo en la actividad de la empresa: la ordeña masiva de vacas.

            En esa entrada está toda la explosividad de Memory House. No sólo porque obligado por las circunstancias
            Cristovam se ve forzado a habitar una casa en abandono pero llena de memorabilia y recuerdos (el nombre
            en portugués de la películas es Casa de Antiguidades) en donde será objeto del rechazo supremacista,
            racista, visceral y enfadado de quienes viven alrededor de él, la colonia relacionada con los explotadores
            empresarios europeos de derechas imbéciles que lo violentan de todas las formas posibles. Sino también
            porque al buscar refugio en lo que ahora es su casa Cristovam conecta poco a poco con el pasado de su
            país, profundo, enraizado, un pasado que a veces le da confort y otras le conErma que la situación de
            explotación de la gente de Brasil, de sus tierras, de sus selvas no es cosa nueva y no ha mejorado desde que
            comenzó (Bolsonaro odiará esta película). Hay que agregar además que en una voltereta vital el (nuestro)
            personaje central es interpretado por Antonio Pitanga, actor del Cinema Novo brasileño, movimiento que
            buscaba retratar la inclemente realidad de Brasil en los años 60 para transformarla a favor de los de abajo.

            Memory House juega entonces con esas ideas al transitar en los días de Cristovam en una nave estilo
            pesadilla. Un lenguaje onírico que no termina por serlo y a veces se injerta aromas de borrachera infernal y
            sueños húmedos de fetichismos revolucionarios. Memory House juega con una forma aleatoria, poco
            narrativa pero ultra descriptiva, pegatinas de pasado que se dejan ver en las capas ocultas de la pintura y el
            cemento de la pared y que cuando es necesario llevan a Cristovam al pasado de su propia cultura ya sea para
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            aliviarlo y darle armas (literales y Eguradas) o dejarle ver que el futuro es tan ingrato como el pasado de
            explotación en que han vivido tantos.

            Cristovam acepta el viaje y se monta en la nave. Y en su camino al pasado (¿por qué se convierte en
            vaquero?) se fortalece ante los golpes de un sistema inhumano materializado en sus vecinos. La casa es su
            refugio y su trampa (la metáfora de su país). Ahí encuentra los disfraces chamánicos que lo deEenden y que
            eventualmente lo convertirán en aquello que sus patrones explotan: una vaca ceremonial mezcla de
            supersticiones oEciales y herejes que toma venganza ante su propia explotación y que embiste en una
            especie de violenta reivindicación, pero que no le evita ser presa de un presente cruelmente explotador. Es
            una película agridulce.

            En esos aires indeEnidos. En esos golpes de vista. En su evasiva forma llena de espacios para los gritos que
            todavía no se oyen está el llamado de Memory House a la resistencia, quizá la única palabra que Cristovam
            tiene clara en su maltratado universo de explotado.

            CONOCE MÁS. Esta es la crítica de Erick Estrada a True Mothers, gran drama japonés de Naomi Kawase
            presentado en el TIFF 2020.

            Memory House
            (Casa de antiguidades, Brasil-Francia, 2020)
            Dirige: Joao Paulo Miranda
            Actúan: Antonio Pitanga, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Sam Louwyck, Soren Hellerup
            Guion: Joao Paulo Miranda, Felipe Sholl
            Fotografía: Benjamin Echazarreta
            Duración: 87 minutos.

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           SAN SEBASTIAN 2020 New Directors
           Critique : Memory House
           par FABIEN LEMERCIER

             25/09/2020 - Le premier long de João Paulo Miranda Maria entremêle présent et passé, réalisme et
           fantastique, pour une envoûtante immersion symbolique et politique dans l’inconscient collectif brésilien

                                                                "

                                                                                                                      !

           Au micro d’une vente aux enchères de bétail dans l’État de Goiás, le speaker vante "la caractérisation
           raciale impeccable", le "biotype très productif", le "bagage génétique" (hérité de ses parents Credit et
           Traveler) d’un spectaculaire taureau Jatoba vendu 16 000 euros. C’est au cœur d’un Brésil à deux vitesses
           économiques (et raciales) nettement séparées et deux univers psychiques se superposant que João Paulo
           Miranda Maria a déployé l’ambitieux et étrange Memory House [+], son premier long métrage, labellisé par
           la Sélection Officielle du Festival de Cannes, passé par le programme Discovery du Festival de Toronto et
           projeté dans la compétition New Directors du 68e Festival de San Sebastián.

           Originaire du Nordeste, Cristovam (Antonio Pitanga) est employé depuis plus de 20 ans dans la société
           laitière Kainz ("nous sommes venus d’Europe pour apporter l’innovation, apporter une nouvelle perspective
           à ce pays nouveau") qui s’est délocalisée dans le Sud et qui soutient le mouvement séparatiste ("nous ne
           pouvons plus continuer à être la région qui paye le plus de taxes et qui reçoit le moins en retour…
           Continuer à recevoir des ordres des gens paresseux du Nord… Le référendum est notre bouclier contre le
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           sous-développement du reste du Brésil"). À son très humble niveau, Cristovam, qui vit seul avec son chien
           en pleine nature, à l’écart du village, encaisse en silence les sacrifices que la survie économique impose.
           Mais un souffle d’air nouveau perce secrètement sa carapace et le propulse entre deux mondes, dans une
           zone fantasmagorique où s’incarnent les animaux sauvages, où les objets et les esprits anciens prennent
           possession de son âme, où les sagaies s’opposent aux fusils…

           Visions hallucinatoires, changements de perspective, feulements de fauve, masque d’Halloween et vrai
           cadavre : à partir d’une maison abandonnée, João Paulo Miranda Maria (qui a aussi écrit le scénario) fait
           se télescoper plusieurs dimensions et ouvre en grand la fenêtre du présent aux esprits ancestraux de son
           pays. S’engouffrent des jaguars, des taureaux aux yeux de feu, des forêts brumeuses, tout un univers
           parallèle gagnant le microcosme de l’usine, du bar du quartier, des gamins violents, du racisme ambiant, de
           la misère sociale… Une sorte d’hymne et d’appel aux racines du peuple brésilien, aux rituels purificatoires
           et sacrificiels occultes du candomblé, que le cinéaste enchevêtre avec un sens très développé de
           l’étrangeté qui réussit à maintenir un degré de curiosité élevé tout en laissant au spectateur les clés
           multiples de l’interprétation, au-delà d’un message parfaitement clair : "il est temps… il a prié et prié encore
           pour que le monde change".

           Produit par les Brésiliens de BeBossa Entertainment et les Français de Maneki Films, Memory House est
           vendu à l’international par Celluloid Dreams.

         plus sur : Memory House
                                                  Critique : Memory House
                                                  Le premier long de João Paulo Miranda Maria entremêle présent et
                                                  passé, réalisme et fantastique, pour une envoûtante immersion
                                                  symbolique et politique dans l’inconscient collectif brésilien $
                                                     25/09/2020 | San Sebastian 2020 | New Directors

                                                  San Sebastian reçoit Luca Guadagnino
                                                  Le festival a annoncé qu’il accueillerait la première mondiale de la
                                                  série du réalisateur italien, We Are Who We Are, et complète les
                                                  programmes des sections Compétition, New Directors et... $
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                                                  Étienne Comar tourne À l’ombre des filles
                                                  Alex Lutz, Agnès Jaoui, Veerle Baetens, Hafsia Herzi et Marie
                                                  Berto au casting. Une production pilotée par Maneki Films et
                                                  Arches Films avec Versus en coproduction et qui sera vendue par
                                                  Playtime $
                                                     24/08/2020 | Production | Financement | France/Belgique
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          Review: Memory House
           by FABIEN LEMERCIER

             25/09/2020 - João Paulo Miranda Maria’s first full-length film melds past and present, realism and
           fantasy, to offer a mesmerising symbolic and political immersion into the Brazilian collective subconscious

                                                                "

                                                                                                                     !

           At a cattle auction in the State of Goiás, microphone in hand, the speaker sings the praises of spectacular
           bull Jatoba’s "impeccable racial profile", “highly productive biotype" and specific "genetic make-
           up" (inherited from his parents Credit and Traveler), an animal eventually sold for 16,000 euros. It’s within
           the depths of Brazil’s distinctly separate economic (and racial) two-tier system, and two overlapping psychic
           worlds that João Paulo Miranda Maria unfurls his ambitious and bizarre film Memory House [+], a first
           feature-length title which was awarded the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection label, which went on to
           grace the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival and which has now been screened in the New
           Directors competition of the 68th San Sebastián Film Festival.

           Originally from the North-East, Cristovam (Antonio Pitanga) has been an employee of the dairy company
           Kainz for over 20 years ("we came from Europe to bring innovation, to bring a new perspective to this new
           country"), a firm which has relocated to the South and which supports the separatist movement ("we can no
           longer continue to be the region which pays the most tax and which receives the least in return… taking
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           orders from the lazy folk of the North … This referendum is our shield against the under-development of the
           rest of Brazil"). At his own very humble level, living alone with his dog in the middle of the countryside away
           from the village, Cristovam suffers in silence, sucking up the sacrifices required for financial survival. But a
           breath of fresh air subtly penetrates his shell and propels him between two worlds, into a phantasmagorical
           zone where wild animals take shape, where objects and ancient spirits take a hold of his soul and where
           spears must fight against guns…

           Hallucinatory visions, changes in perspective, the growling of wildcats, a Halloween mask and a real-life
           corpse: from an abandoned house, João Paulo Miranda Maria (who also wrote the script) brings various
           dimensions into collision and flings opens a window to the ancestral spirits of his homeland, allowing them
           to enter into the present. Jaguars, bulls with eyes ablaze, misty forests… An entire parallel universe rushes
           forwards, invading the microcosm of the factory, of the local bar, of violent kids, of the pervading racism and
           social destitution… It’s a hymn, of sorts, and a call for the Brazilian people to return to their roots, to the
           purifying, sacrificial, occult rituals of candomblé, which the filmmaker tangles together with a highly
           developed sense of the bizarre, successfully maintaining high levels of curiosity while also leaving the
           viewer multiple keys to interpret the film. This, in addition to the crystal-clear message: "it is time… he has
           prayed and prayed again for the world to change".

           Produced by Brazilian outfit BeBossa Entertainment and French firm Maneki Films, Memory House is sold
           worldwide by Celluloid Dreams.
           (Translated from French)

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                                                  present, realism and fantasy, to offer a mesmerising symbolic and
                                                  political immersion into the Brazilian collective subconscious $
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                                                            international title:         Memory House

                                                            original title:              Casa de Antiguidades

                                                            country:                     Brazil, France

                                                            sales agent:                 Celluloid Dreams

                                                            year:                        2020

                                                            directed by:                 João Paulo Miranda Maria

                                                            screenplay:                  João Paulo Miranda Maria
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                                                                      cast:                   Sam Louwyck, Soren
                                                                                              Hellerup, Antonio Pitanga,
                                                                                              Ana Flavia Cavalcanti

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                              Racism in Contemporary Brazil
                              João Paulo Miranda Maria’s debut feature film Memory
                              House – a critical appraisal of racism in modern Brazil – is
                              about to make another appearance on this year’s festival
                              circuit at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

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                              The only Latin American film to be selected at the Cannes
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                              film festival this year, Memory House has also been shown
         $                    at the Toronto festival and will run in the New Director’s
                              Line Up at San Sebastian later this week. Miranda Maria
         %
                              uses minimal dialogue and scenes with richly composed
         &                    visuals to tell the story of Cristovam (Antonio Pitanga), an
                              indigenous Black man from the rural north of Brazil who
         '
                              migrates to a conservative Austrian-Brazilian community in
         (                    the south of the country to work at a dairy farm.

         )
                              Full of imagery from indigenous Brazilian folklore, the film
         *                    examines what happens to an oppressed minority man as
                              decades of abuse chip away at his humanity. Cristovam’s
         +                    character undergoes a transformation inspired by the
                              “caboclo boiadeiro” figures of the bull and cowboy, as he
                              comes to realize that he has more in common with the
                              dairy’s cattle than he does with his fellow workers.

                              A   timely    commentary        on    the    enduring     legacy     of
                              colonialism in South America, the screenplay was written
                              and developed at a Cannes Next Step Workshop that
                              Miranda Maria attended in 2015, at a time when his native
                              Brazil was in a state of political upheaval. Later that year
                              impeachment proceedings began against Dilma Rousseff
                              – Brazil’s president at the time – eventually leading to the
                              election of the far-right politician Jair                Bolsonaro,
                              frustrating Miranda Maria. The director commented that he
                              has long felt racial tensions simmering just under the
                              surface in Brazil, “which is at odds with its image as a
                              tropical carnival paradise.” He added that portraying these
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                              tensions on screen gives a shamanistic element to his work
                              like the spirits invoked by the character in his film.

                              Born in 1982 in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil,
                              Miranda Maria graduated in “Cinema and Master” at the
                              University of Campinas. He is a Teacher at the Methodist
                              University of Piracicaba and                  coordinates        for    a    film
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                              collective called Kino-Olho in São Paulo. His films are
         "                    inspired by the reality of the countryside where he lives.

         #                    Brazilian octogenarian actor Antonio Pitanga has starred

         $                    in over 65 films, multiple soap operas and series, and a
                              dozen      plays     over      the     past     sixty    years.       Featuring
         %                    prominently in the “Cinema Novo” movement, Pitanga has
                              worked with some of the most esteemed directors in
         &
                              Brazilian cinema such as Joaquim Pedro de Andrade,
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                    SUCCINCTEMENT
                                                                        PRIMEURS EN
                    Un homme d’âge moyen, noir de                       SALLE À
                    peau, Cristovam, travaille dans une                 MONTRÉAL
                    usine d’une région du Brésil dirigée
                    par un autrichien. Il découvre une
                    maison quelque part perdue dans la
                    région. Le lieu et les objets qu’il y
                    trouve évoquent en lui ses propres
                    racines.

                                CRITIQUE.
                                  [ Inédit]
                         « Discovery » / TIFF 2020
                                         Texte.
                                      Élie Castiel                      Semaine du
                                                                        vendredi 25
                                        ★★★                             septembre au jeudi
                                                                        1er octobre 2020
                 Un film austère, idéologiquement délinéaire,
                 puisque la narration classique n’a pas ici droit
                                                                          Articles plus
                 de cité. Il est ici question d’un scénario original      anciens >>
                 du réalisateur, cosigné avec Felipe Sholl, à qui
                 l’on doit quelques projets d’écriture, deux
                 courts et un long métrage en 2016, T a l k t o M e
                 (The Other End / Fala comigo).                         ARTS PLURIELS

                 Le titre original de l’opera prima de João Paulo
                 Miranda Maria s’harmonise davantage avec cet
                 anti-récit qui va intentionnellement dans tous
                 les sens, sans points d’appui. Tout le contraire,
                 observant une sorte de religiosité maladive à
                 brouiller les pistes, à présenter des
                                                                        Zebrina. Une pièce
                 personnages qui ne sortent on ne sait d’où. Et
                                                                        à conviction
                 peu de dialogues, préférant que la caméra de
                 Benjamin Echazarreta brosse des portraits
                 originaux, des canevas hors du temps, parfois
                 anachroniques, posant un geste inquiétant
                 envers le spectateur, l’obligeant à essayer de
                 donner un sens à ce qui se passe à l’écran.

                 Pour revenir au titre original, Casa            de     Paris au temps du
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                 Antiguidades (Maison d’antiquités) est sans                  postimpressionnisme
                 doute le seul élément qui prédispose                         : Signac et les
                 Cristovam, le (anti)héros de ce drôle de récit à             indépendants
                 découvrir des objets, des artéfacts d’une autre
                 époque, à creuser (briser) un mur portant un
                 gra"ti raciste pour découvrir une a"che d’un
                 film western (est-ce bien de cela qu’il s’agit?)
                 pour que plus tard, ce même bout de papier
                 devienne une sorte de dessin paléolithique.

                          Un folklore
                                                                              Antony & Cleopatra

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                        intentionnellement                                      anciens >>

                            désincarné
                 Les pistes sont volontairement brouillées et
                 cela fait partie d’un certain Cinéma Novo                    EN LUMIÈRE
                 brésilien, si cher aux années 70 et qui a permis
                 à Antonio Pitanga (ici, Cristovam) de signer
                 son seul long métrage en 1978 – I n t h e M o u t h
                 o f t h e Wo r l d / Na Boca do Mundo –
                 coscénarisé par l’incontournable Carlos
                 Diegues et moins connu, Leopoldo Serran,
                 signataire de l’écriture de B y e B y e B r é s i l / Bye    Fantasia 2020 [
                 Bye Brasil (1980), de Diegues. Travail d’artisans            Deuxième partie ]
                 d’une certain époque du cinéma brésilien dont
                 les membres collaborent souvent ensemble, en
                 équipes harmonisées. Et si c’était le cas de
                 Miranda Maria, lui aussi porté par ce cinéma
                 national d’un autre temps, quitte à prendre
                 des risques énormes et s’attendre au pire.
                                                                              Fantasia 2020 [
                                                                              Première partie ]

                                                                                                  For
                                                                                                  the

                                                                              Daemon
                 La première séquence ressemble à un plan-
                 séquence tant le patron de l’usine prend un                    Articles plus
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                 temps fou pour annoncer à Cristovam qu’il               anciens >>
                 sera licencié. Âge? Raisons économiques? Peu
                 importe puisque le reste du film est un va-et-
                 vient continuel entre des séquences
                 métaphoriques et d’autres plus réalistes qui          IN-FOLIO
                 font le parcours d’un racisme institutionnalisé,
                 de l’indi#érence de l’Être et particulièment
                 d’une certaine forme de violence. Le
                 colonialisme n’est pas mort. Il arbore un
                 nouveau visage.

                             Quelques                                  Pornodyssée
                             panoramiques, même si
                             le    plan   fixe   est
                             facilité           dans
                             l’ensemble, projettent
                             une vision partagée
                             des lieux clos et de la                   Cinémiracles,
                             liberté de certains                       l’émerveillement
                             extérieurs, comme ce                      religieux à l’écran
                             petit    troupeau    de
                             vaches dans un pré                                            Les
                             verdoyant,
                             contrastant avec la
                             décrépitude     de    la
                             maison abandonnée.
                                                                       crapauds sourds de
                                                                       Berlin
                 Pas de direction d’acteurs, mais une tentative
                 de collaboration commune entre tous les                 Articles plus
                 participants/protagonistes. D’où ce laxisme             anciens >>
                 dans     certains   gestes   qui    paraissent
                 intentionnellement improvisés.

                 Quelques panoramiques, même si le plan fixe           ÉPHÉMÉRIDES
                 est facilité dans l’ensemble, projettent une
                 vision partagée des lieux clos et de la liberté de
                 certains extérieurs, comme ce petit troupeau
                 de vaches dans un pré verdoyant, contrastant
                 avec la décrépitude de la maison abandonnée.
                 Lieu où Cristovam découvrira deux jeunes
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                 hommes en train de copuler – Pourquoi de ce        Cpx-Hebdo [39
                 court moment tout à fait inutile –                 09-2020]
                 Homophobie? Provocation? Humour mal placé?
                  Mais bon, on pardonnera cet écart à João
                 Paulo Miranda Maria tant il semble possédé
                 par un genre de cinéma qui le hante et qui
                 nous a ébloui à une certaine époque.

                 Mais au fond, le folklore dont il est question,
                                                                    Cpx-Hebdo [38
                 du moins en apparence, se trouve étrangement
                                                                    09-2020]
                 désincarné, perdu dans les méandres d’une
                 symbolique démesurée.

                   FICHE

                                                                    Cpx-Hebdo [37
                                                                    09-2020]

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                   Scénario : João Paul Miranda Maria, Felipe
                                     Sholl

                               Origine : Brésil / France

                                      Langue(s)
                          V.o. : portugais, allemand; s.-t.a.
                                Casa de Antiguidades
                        Année : 2020 – Durée : 1 h 30 min
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                           Image : Benjamin Echazarreta

                            Montage : Benjamin Mirguet

                              Musique : Nicolas Becker

                             Son : Guillermo Farkas
                     Assisté de Ariel Enrique, Luana Leobas
                         Léo Bortolin & Isadora Torres

                   Direction artistique : Isabelle Bittencourt

                                   Interprètes
                      Antonio Pitanga, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti
                         Sam Louwyck, Soren Helterup

                                  Producteur(s)
                          Paula Cosenza, Didar Domehri
                          Denise Gomes, Ariene Ferreira

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           Casa de Antiguidades (Memory House) 2020- Dir João Paulo
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           Set in modern-day Brazil, with a fantastical narrative using hallucinations and dreams, in                                Monday, September 28, 2020 -
           his lm Memory House 2020, João Paulo Miranda María explores the lonely and tortured
           life of Cristovam as he su ers the harsh clash of cultures between the North and South                                    Casa de Antiguidades (Me
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           When the German-owned Dairy he works for is closed down, Cristovam, a middle-aged native
           Black man from the sertão rural lands of Goiás (a magnetic Antonio Pitanga), goes with the
           company to their new location in the southern part of Brazil. This is an area that has been
           occupied by German and Austrian colonies for a long time, so that German has, in e ect
           become the local language, Bavarian liederhosen are worn and German ditties and accordion
           music rings out of every corner, often accompanied by much heel slapping. Surrounded by
           racist xenophobes, who are clamouring for a referendum on independence from the rest of
           Brazil, Cristovam nds himself alienated and ostracized.

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           “…we can no longer continue to be the region which pays the most tax and which receives the least in
           return… taking orders from the lazy folk of the North … This referendum is our shield against the                 «
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Antonio Pitanga as Cristovam in Memory House (2020)

Eventually, Cristovam nds an old abandoned house full of memorabilia and Afro-Brazilian
religious objects that he recognizes and, feeling at home, he decides to live there. The objects
he goes discovering in the house, begin to take on a life of their own, as if alive. Gradually, he
identi es with them so much that he begins a metamorphosis of his own, guided by their
spirits.

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valour), that haunt Cristovam’s deliriums and dreams. The jaguar can represent the power to
face one’s fears and confront one’s enemies. One night, visions of the Jaguar with its ability to
see in the night and gaze into the dark parts of the human heart, frighten him to use his spear
to defend himself, as he lives always on guard, tormented by the cruel taunts of his German
work colleagues and their delinquent children who murder his dog.
German children in Memory House (2020)

João Paulo Miranda María explores the divisions and lack of cohesion between di erent area of
Brazil through this exposé of a clash of cultures. Having come from the north- east himself,
Miranda María also uses the metaphor of a cattle auction in Goiás, the home state of the main
character Cristovam, where the sale of one very valuable breeding bull and his spectacular
genealogy, illustrates the huge economic, social and racial tiers in the society as the bull is sold
for more money than Cristovam would see in a lifetime.

Antonio Pitanga

With the help of the ancestral spirits that he evokes, Cristovam seeks to ends his silent su ering
by allowing himself to be possessed by the spirits. Inspired by bulls and jaguars and occult
rituals of candomblé,he nally decides to ght back.          "it is time… he has prayed and prayed
again for the world to change".
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Antonio Pitanga as Cristovam with his dog

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spirits.

Miranda María avoids gratuitous scenes and a lot is suggested and not clearly seen. There is a
painful slow pace and a slow burn as Cristovam is belittled and taunted, but nds himself
unable to react being ostracized as the outsider. Antonio Piranga as Cristovam has a powerful
presence on screen, so that although it is not always easy to understand what is going on, it is
hard to not be compelled to continue watching. The Art direction (Isabelle Bittencourt), mise- en
-scène, photography and lighting is powerfully atmospheric, with a particular edge in the
superb colour quality. The DOP is Benjamín Echazarreta, (also known for his work on A
Fantastic Woman (2017) and Gloria (2013) both directed by Sebastian Lelio).

Miranda Maria previously directed a number of short lms that gained recognition. Command
Action (2015) was selected for the ‘Semaine de la Critique’ at Cannes and later his lm The Girl
who Danced with the Devil 2016 was awarded a Special Jury Mention. Selected to participate in
the New Director’s Competition at the 68th San Sebastian International Film festival, Memory
House (2020) was also the only Latin -American entry of the Cannes Label 2020.
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