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Brazil, Denmark · 2019
1h 18m
Director Tali Yankelevich
Starring
Genre Documentary
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Between repetitive actions such as stocking shelves and scanning groceries, anonymous Brazilian supermarket employees reflect frankly on their lives, society, and the role they dream of playing in it.
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The New York Times by Beatrice Loayza
Better late than never, the film’s spiritual thrust becomes clear by the third act. The stark symmetry of the shelved merchandise and the eerily dissonant score assumes an otherworldly, ritualistic power when our subjects begin musing on faith and the nature of existence.
Los Angeles Times by Carlos Aguilar
In this existentialist delight, whimsical and profound, the mundane gains new enlightenment.
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
If the world outside the Supermercado Veran is rife with poverty and crime, we wouldn’t know it from inside this little cocoon.
Austin Chronicle by Josh Kupecki
It is difficult to see My Darling Supermarket for the whimsical anthropological oddity it so desperately strives to be.