In the first days of June 2020, the Brazilian feature Memory House (Casa de antiguidades), by João Paulo Miranda Maria, was announced as the only Latin American film selected by the Cannes Film Festival—a kind of “symbolic” selection, as the festival would not take place this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The films received a “Cannes label” and have premièred at other renowned events as restrictions have slowly been lifted.Brazil was the epicenter of the pandemic at that moment, in addition to being dragged down by a political and economic crisis, with all the public funds assigned to the cinema industry frozen, and on the verge of losing its Cinemateca (the biggest film archive in Latin America) in a dubious process of government intervention. Then an astonishment and a question hovered in the minds of many who follow and love cinema in the country: who is João Paulo Miranda Maria?...
- 12/19/2020
- MUBI
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