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Brazil, France · 2020
1h 27m
Director João Paulo Miranda Maria
Starring Antônio Pitanga, Soren Hellerup, Sam Louwyck, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti
Genre Drama, Fantasy
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An older Black Indigenous man moves from North to South Brazil and begins working at a milk factory in a community dominated by Austrians. As he attempts to withstand the vicious racism he faces, the objects in his house pull him back into the past, connecting him with folklore and the animal world.
The New York Times by Beatrice Loayza
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.
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.
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.
Slant Magazine by William Repass
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.
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