Post by Eλευθερί on May 6, 2021 23:17:28 GMT
Brazilian film reminiscent of a number of Luis Buñuel's works, or Marco Ferreri's La grande bouffe. A number of upper middle-class Brazilians meet regularly at a restaurant, where they dine with the restaurant's owner and complain about their lives, including what they perceive as incompetence of their domestic servants and employees.
The film is a biting indictment of class and race in contemporary Brazil, but the film could just as easily have been set in the US or Britain, or any other of a number of countries. In one scene, a restaurant worker curses at a bunch of hungry homeless men who have been scavenging discarded food from the restaurant's trash cans; the worker then lovingly feeds food from the restaurant to a stray dog.
In another scene, an older well-to-do woman has hit and killed a child on the street outside the restaurant. She proceeds to blame the child, the child's parents, the neighborhood, the city for its inadequate social policies, etc, while insisting that she follows the law and is completely blameless. She then gets back into her car and drives away, saying she has somewhere to be and is already late.
7/10
The film is a biting indictment of class and race in contemporary Brazil, but the film could just as easily have been set in the US or Britain, or any other of a number of countries. In one scene, a restaurant worker curses at a bunch of hungry homeless men who have been scavenging discarded food from the restaurant's trash cans; the worker then lovingly feeds food from the restaurant to a stray dog.
In another scene, an older well-to-do woman has hit and killed a child on the street outside the restaurant. She proceeds to blame the child, the child's parents, the neighborhood, the city for its inadequate social policies, etc, while insisting that she follows the law and is completely blameless. She then gets back into her car and drives away, saying she has somewhere to be and is already late.
7/10