Movies: Jean-Claude Bernardet

From the murder of his father by his uncle, Hamlet is forced to confront its own contradictions and the world around him. In a deconstruction of itself, Hamlet delves into the eternal question of the meaning of existence. Set in a large metropolis, H...

This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show....

An ode of love and hatred to the city of São Paulo. Composed of fragments of films, it follows characters in their natural habitat: the streets....

Bruno is a young men from São Paulo who is proud of his growing beard. When his grandfather can no longer go to his usual barber, Bruno has to learn to shave with a straight razor in order to help his grandfather stay 'sharp'....

An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?...

Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room....

Henrique is a filmmaker who has made films that hardly anyone saw. A marginal for lack of choice....

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Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: “a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortur...

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his m...

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An old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder, higher and higher, until it finally slips from his hand, hitting the floor and unleashing the hell…...

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The scientist Udo Gierer is on the trail of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, the famous Amazon researcher at the beginning of our century. While traveling on a river steamboat, he meets and becomes friends with 14 year old José Junior. He takes José with him o...

This program from the Brazilian Historical Panorama series proposes a reflection on the 60s in Brazil based on its audiovisual memory. With excerpts from texts and opinions by Augusto Boal, Lygia Clark and Torquato Neto, among others, scenes from mov...

The death machine needs to maintain its longevity to expand and profit....

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