O Dia de Jerusa

"A Day with Jerusa" tells the story of the meeting between the sensitive Silvia, a young market researcher who faces the hardships of underemployment while awaiting the results of a public exam, and the graceful Jerusa, a 77-year-old woman who witnessed the daily life of the Bixiga neighborhood, filled with ancestral memories. On Jerusa's birthday, while she waits for her family to celebrate, the encounter between her memories and Silvia's mediumship allows them to travel through times and realities common to their ancestors.

I started watching the film, paused to discover the original short film, and returned after finishing that masterpiece, to be moved and fall in love with this one, just as beautiful, intimate, homely, made by people like us, for us, composed only of black actors, and one Asian, women, marked, we identify with, we feel embarrassed (who has never experienced an inconvenient menstrual leak), a wonderful drama, directed and written by the young and exquisite Viviane Ferreira. Simple, genuine and poetic.