Fernando Pacheco Jordão

A documentary of profound irony about the bourgeois dream of establishing a film industry in Brazil in the 1930s. The project in question, the Companhia Americana de Filmes, went bankrupt before finishing its only film, which was called 'Eterna Esperança' (Eternal Hope).

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A funny chronicle of the São Paulo middle class in the 1970s, based on a simple but effective premise: a primary school class meeting, 20 years later. Retrato de Classe starts from a photo of the junior class of a private school, in a middle class neighborhood of São Paulo. He searches for and gathers former colleagues and a teacher, in order to recreate the group's trajectories, to draw the profile of the country's metropolitan bourgeoisie. A country in crisis and a middle class that was experiencing the collapse of the economic miracle. Frustrations, desires, prejudice and futility are part of this universe of people and their life trajectories.

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