Cat Skin

One of the very best movies from Cinema Novo movment is a short film: this amazing piece by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, brilliantly directed, filmed and acted. Its amazing cinematograghy explores beauties and contrasts of Rio de Janeiro. Actors go well and the impressive performance of the young boys from slums must be praised. It iszlso nice to see Domingos Oliveira, who was assistant of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, also acting in the role of a waiter. Couro de Gato is delicate and fierce at once, showing how much lives worth very differently in this unequal society. The boys hunt cats for selling them to be killed and transformed in musical instruments. On thenother hand, the boys are hunted by the society, which loves cats and have bad feelings about the poor, such as indifference, hatred... and fear. Everything is shown in a very poetic, sad, and sometimes even funny way, always with a fantastic pace, either when there is a fast chase or when a boy and a cat share the little they have.