We Are Brothers (Burle, 1949): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 3.20pm
The screening of We Are Also Brothers on Friday 1 May will be introduced by Dr Felipe Botelho Correa, King’s College London. This is part of the Brazilian Cinema season at BFI Southbank. You can find the details here.BFI introduction:
Two Black brothers opt for very different career paths in Rio. One
pursues education and respectability, while the other is drawn into
petty crime. Burle blends melodrama with social critique and uses his
characters’ stories as a platform to confront Brazil’s myth of racial
harmony.
Here (and above) is an extract.
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