• A well-earned poignant tale—neorealism blended with a road-trip journey movie through 1990’s Brazil
  • Rich landscapes—sand and floral colors – large murals and small items like a lime green fan blade
  • Starts with a sad montage of illiterate people asking Fernanda Montenegro to write letters for her—and she’s essentially Ebenezer Scrooge here to begin with
  • Very nice alley shot—cars on both sides and columns paving the way for the camera
  • The young boy cries 3-4 times—really tragic. Salles is able to avoid some of the sentimentality with the hardness of Montenegro’s character and her performance
  • Beautiful stain-glass at restaurant where the bus stops, shot framed by colored combs hanging in the market
  • Doorway shot after finding out man isn’t his father
  • Recommend/HR border