Mochina (Nena Inoue) in Fogareu. Flávia Neves: 'The story of the protagonist is a little bit of my story and finding out about my past and what happened to my mother' The burning injustices of colonialism and Brazil's past are used to fuel Flávia Neves' debut film Fogareu (which translates as fire in English), which incorporates supernatural elements. A young woman, Fernanda (Bárbara Colen) returns to the house of her uncle Antonio Menezes (Eucir de Souza) in Goiás to find out what portion of his estate is hers following the death of her adoptive mother - now dead, but estranged from the family for years due to her homosexuality - and to scatter her ashes.
Beyond the immediate tensions that the presence of the thoroughly modern Fernanda brings to the traditionalist household, she also begins to ask questions about why the maids - mostly women with learning disabilities -...
Beyond the immediate tensions that the presence of the thoroughly modern Fernanda brings to the traditionalist household, she also begins to ask questions about why the maids - mostly women with learning disabilities -...
- 12/27/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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