Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
Direction
Bianchi's patient five-year observation feels like sociological cinema vérité.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes dinner conversation into political theater.
Acting
Ensemble captures Brazil's class tensions without caricature.
Director
Sérgio Bianchi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso presidency, the film directly confronts neoliberal policies that widened Brazil's inequality gap.
The restaurant setting was inspired by real São Paulo establishments where Bianchi observed actual class-mixing that fueled his screenplay.
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