Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.
Direction
Pinheiro's tactile, rust-colored vision of working-class futurism.
Acting
Luciano Pedro Jr.'s earnestness against the absurdity.
Production
Junkyard beauty—every dent tells a story.
Director
Renata Pinheiro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pinheiro emerged from Brazil's Recife film movement, known for magically realist takes on northeastern poverty—think Kleber Mendonça Filho but with more talking vehicles.
The car's voice actor, Tavinho Teixeira, also plays the corrupt Deputy Audileyson, subtly linking state power and vehicular consciousness as twin engines of control.
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