Three nobodies watch rich people implode in real-time. Class warfare, but make it Brazilian and deeply uncomfortable.
A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems like forever. They witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests loosen up.
Acting
Antônio Abujamra's simmering resentment as Velho.
Direction
Giorgetti traps you in that lobby for 87 glorious minutes.
Director
Ugo Giorgetti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Brazil's hyperinflation crisis, the film's trapped feeling mirrored a nation watching elites party while ordinary people waited for scraps.
Giorgetti based the lobby on actual São Paulo mansions where servants were literally hidden from guests' view — the architecture of class erasure.
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