Debuting in theaters this Thursday, 11, Long of Clarissa Campolina and Sérgio Borges reflects on belonging
Known for showing that the journey often reveals more than the final destination, Road Movie is a genre consecrated in cinema. Suddenof the directors Clarissa Campolina (Song in the distance) and Sérgio Borges (The sky on the shoulders), follows this tradition, transforming the path of its protagonist into poetic, political and social experience. Awarded at the 43rd Brasilia Festival – Best Movie, Direction, Assembly, Road map and Special Jury Award (cast) – The long mixing social realism and fantastic elements to explore belonging, memory and transformation.
Doer (SINARA TELES, The silence of oysters) For years the roads of Minas Gerais, guided by an old photo of his mother who reveals the mythical Valley of Suçuarana, the only track of this place where she imagines that she can find belonging. Between rides and landscapes devastated by mining, she faces the risks of traveling alone. After an accident, he finds a refuge in an abandoned factory, where a worker community offers the home he seeks for a moment.
The narrative develops as a reflective crossing. Each meeting of Doer By the way – be it with Ernesto (Carlos Francisco, Strange way), other characters or the dog Trouble (Name Tony Stark In real life) – exposes a Brazil marked by historical inequalities, environmental devastation and collective forms of survival. By crossing territories ruined by mining, the protagonist not only seeks a physical refuge, but also resignifies the idea of belonging in a country in constant reconstruction.
By making the fragility of communities and environmental destruction visible, the feature highlights the courage of a woman traveling alone, facing dangerous roads, rides of unknown and challenges along the way. His risky and liberating loneliness reflects the strength of all who resist the margins of often invisible society and continue to fight for ways of existing and reinventing themselves.
Freely inspired by the soap opera The Beast in the Junglefrom Henry James, Sudden also dialogues with contemporary Brazilian cinema, as Arabia (2017) João Dumans and Affonso Uchoawhen dealing with individual search as a collectivity metaphor and a country in transformation. The feature plunges into the ancestry and historical marks of slavery, showing that Dora’s experience echoes that of many others, whose color of skin, trajectory and resistance give voice to a collective social memory.
The film still evokes the idea of utopian and unreachable paradise, in the way to share it, the mythical Vale Tibetano created by James Hilton in the novel Lost horizon (1933). Suçuarana acts as a symbolic place: unreachable, but essential to guide the journey of Doer And of all who, like her, turn the way into discovery. In the end, it matters little if it will find the valley: the movie reminds us that we are all somehow on the road, trying to reinvent a space together that may only exist in the imagination, but whose search is, by itself, significant.
Also read: ‘Suçuarana’, a long award -winning at the Brasilia Festival, debut in theaters
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Source: Rollingstone
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