Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.
Acting
Chico Diaz's veteran hitman wears exhaustion like a second skin.
Cinematography
Sticky, fluorescent bar light that makes everyone look already dead.
Direction
Beto Brant stretches ninety minutes into eternal limbo.
Director
Beto Brant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Beto Brant shot this in his actual hometown border region using local non-actors for background roles.
Part of the 1990s 'Brazilian neo-noir' wave that reacted against Cinema Novo's social optimism — this generation said actually, everything is still rotting.
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