Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Direction
Mendonça Filho shapes ten years of footage into cohesive thesis.
Writing
Interviews reveal critics' vulnerability, not just arrogance.
Director
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mendonça Filho conducted these interviews while establishing himself as a critic, secretly gathering material for his eventual pivot to acclaimed feature filmmaking with Neighbouring Sounds and Aquarius.
The film's release in 2008 coincided with the collapse of print criticism and the rise of blogs, making its elegiac tone for a pre-digital critical culture almost immediately nostalgic.
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