I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You(Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque Te Amo)

Name: I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
Genre: Drama

Brazil · 2009
1h 15m
Director Marcelo Gomes
Starring Irandhir Santos
Genre Drama

José Renato is sent out on a solitary expedition to the wilds of northeastern Brazil in order to survey possible routes for a canal that will connect the area to civilization. But, as the trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with these wild spaces a transfixing and elemental sense of emptiness, abandonment, and isolation.

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Chicago Reader by

Their use of multiple formats-including digital video, Super 8, and 35-millimeter slides-gives the movie the texture of a worn scrapbook.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

The visual collage retains a consistent melancholy, resulting in an experience that's both deeply affecting and-since José never actually appears on-camera-utterly detached.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Coming in at a tight 75 minutes, this strikingly original travelogue glides on the lovely lilt of Mr. Santos's Portuguese narration.

Boxoffice Magazine by John P. McCarthy

Has a stirring elemental feel and constitutes filmmaking at its most basic and transfixing.