We’ve come a long way with the notion of women as complete human beings who can hold down challenging jobs, perform tough physical tasks and exist independently of motherhood or their own mothers, but there’s still a chain of logic running throughout most Hollywood and independent films which sees women who try to live this way discovering that they’re happier in more traditional roles. A Mother’s Embrace, which screened as part of Beyond Fest 2024, flirts with this logic in multiple ways but proceeds to take it somewhere much more interesting by exploring maternality and the desire to return to the womb on a much grander and more overtly horrific scale.
Ana (Marjorie Estiano) has just returned to her firefighting duties after two months’ leave. The psychological troubles she experienced relate to her relationship with her mother, who, by this time, we have already seen in a flashback,...
Ana (Marjorie Estiano) has just returned to her firefighting duties after two months’ leave. The psychological troubles she experienced relate to her relationship with her mother, who, by this time, we have already seen in a flashback,...
- 10/7/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Spain’s Zeta Studios, the company behind Netflix hit “Elite,” has partnered with leading Brazilian indie Conspiração to create “Bajo Presión,” a Spanish remake of the hit Brazilian TV medical drama, “Sob Pressão”(“Under Pressure”).
Set in the emergency room of a public hospital, Brazil’s “Under Pressure” hit a sweet spot, mixing large suspense – about the fate of patients, and the series’ long term relationship – and a bracing social realism. The story revolves around a surgeon (Julio Andrade) and doctor (Marjorie Estiano) battling not only for their relationship but also against the severe lack of hospital resources. As they navigate this challenging landscape, their professional values, ingenuity and mounting desperation collide.
The original five-season series for Brazilian media giant Globo was developed by Claudio Torres, Jorge Furtado, Renato Fagundes, and Luiz Noronha and penned by Lucas Paraízo.
It draws inspiration from “Me You Them” director Andrucha Waddington’s film of the same name,...
Set in the emergency room of a public hospital, Brazil’s “Under Pressure” hit a sweet spot, mixing large suspense – about the fate of patients, and the series’ long term relationship – and a bracing social realism. The story revolves around a surgeon (Julio Andrade) and doctor (Marjorie Estiano) battling not only for their relationship but also against the severe lack of hospital resources. As they navigate this challenging landscape, their professional values, ingenuity and mounting desperation collide.
The original five-season series for Brazilian media giant Globo was developed by Claudio Torres, Jorge Furtado, Renato Fagundes, and Luiz Noronha and penned by Lucas Paraízo.
It draws inspiration from “Me You Them” director Andrucha Waddington’s film of the same name,...
- 10/1/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Making its premiere at Beyond Fest on October 6th, we're thrilled to host the teaser trailer premiere for Cristian Ponce’s terrifying disaster-horror film A Mother’S Embrace.
"From the director of the acclaimed Brazilian horror film History Of The Occult, A Mother’S Embrace takes place in 1996 and follows a young firefighter and her team who are called to help an old folks' home that is at risk of flooding during the worst storm to ever hit Rio de Janeiro.
As they try their best to evacuate the elderly, the firefighter soon finds that something sinister is lurking beneath the surface, and the residents are not as innocent as they first seemed. Entangled in their web, she must fight through her own traumatic past to escape."
The film stars Marjorie Estiano, Chandelly Braz, Javier Drolas, Reynaldo Machado, Val Perré, Angela Rabello, Helena Varvaki, Rafael Canedo, Maria Volpe, Mel Nunes, and Thelmo Fernandes.
"From the director of the acclaimed Brazilian horror film History Of The Occult, A Mother’S Embrace takes place in 1996 and follows a young firefighter and her team who are called to help an old folks' home that is at risk of flooding during the worst storm to ever hit Rio de Janeiro.
As they try their best to evacuate the elderly, the firefighter soon finds that something sinister is lurking beneath the surface, and the residents are not as innocent as they first seemed. Entangled in their web, she must fight through her own traumatic past to escape."
The film stars Marjorie Estiano, Chandelly Braz, Javier Drolas, Reynaldo Machado, Val Perré, Angela Rabello, Helena Varvaki, Rafael Canedo, Maria Volpe, Mel Nunes, and Thelmo Fernandes.
- 9/19/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Close Encounter
The 68th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled additional titles for its 2024 program. The new slate includes one world premiere, one international premiere, one European premiere, and four U.K. premieres.
Charlie McDowell’s “The Summer Book,” starring Glenn Close, Emily Matthews and Anders Danielsen Lie, will have its world premiere as a special presentation. The film adapts Tove Jansson’s novel about a family’s summer on a Finnish island.
Justin Kurzel’s documentary “Ellis Park,” focusing on musician Warren Ellis, is set for its international premiere. The European premiere goes to Fleur Fortuné’s sci-fi feature debut “The Assessment,” with Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel.
U.K. premieres include Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic drama “The End,” featuring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram and Michael Shannon; Marco Dutra’s genre-bending “Bury Your Dead,” starring Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano and Danilo Grangheia; Giovanni Tortorici’s coming-of-age tale “Dicianovve,...
The 68th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled additional titles for its 2024 program. The new slate includes one world premiere, one international premiere, one European premiere, and four U.K. premieres.
Charlie McDowell’s “The Summer Book,” starring Glenn Close, Emily Matthews and Anders Danielsen Lie, will have its world premiere as a special presentation. The film adapts Tove Jansson’s novel about a family’s summer on a Finnish island.
Justin Kurzel’s documentary “Ellis Park,” focusing on musician Warren Ellis, is set for its international premiere. The European premiere goes to Fleur Fortuné’s sci-fi feature debut “The Assessment,” with Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel.
U.K. premieres include Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic drama “The End,” featuring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram and Michael Shannon; Marco Dutra’s genre-bending “Bury Your Dead,” starring Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano and Danilo Grangheia; Giovanni Tortorici’s coming-of-age tale “Dicianovve,...
- 9/5/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The London Film Festival has added multiple titles to this year’s lineup including Charlie McDowell’s The Summer Book, which will screen as a world premiere. Scroll down for the full list.
The Summer Book is an adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s classic novel and stars Glenn Close and Anders Danielsen Lie. Also joining today is Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative feature debut The End. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a family and their companions live in harmony until the arrival of a stranger cracks their strictly organized world wide open, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, and Michael Shannon. The film travels to London after debuting in Telluride.
Other titles include Justin Kurzel’s first non-fiction film, Ellis Park, and Fleur Fortuné’s feature debut The Assessment, a sci-fi chamber piece featuring Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, and Alicia Vikander.
This year’s London Film Festival...
The Summer Book is an adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s classic novel and stars Glenn Close and Anders Danielsen Lie. Also joining today is Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative feature debut The End. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a family and their companions live in harmony until the arrival of a stranger cracks their strictly organized world wide open, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, and Michael Shannon. The film travels to London after debuting in Telluride.
Other titles include Justin Kurzel’s first non-fiction film, Ellis Park, and Fleur Fortuné’s feature debut The Assessment, a sci-fi chamber piece featuring Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, and Alicia Vikander.
This year’s London Film Festival...
- 9/5/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
U.K.-based Blue Finch Films has acquired worldwide rights to the supernatural horror film “A Mother’s Embrace” from director Cristian Ponce.
Set in 1996, the story follows Ana, a young firefighter responding to an emergency at a retirement home during Rio de Janeiro’s worst storm. As her team attempts to evacuate the elderly residents, Ana uncovers sinister undercurrents and must confront her own past trauma to escape.
The film marks Ponce’s second feature, following “History of the Occult,” which won awards at Mar del Plata. He co-wrote the screenplay with Gabriela Capello and André Pereira. Pereira and Mariana Muniz produced through their Lupa Filmes banner.
Brazilian actor Marjorie Estiano, known for her International Emmy-nominated role in Globo’s “Under Pressure” and Locarno winner “Good Manners,” stars alongside Chandelly Braz and Javier Drolas.
Ponce said: “For me, the idea of evil based on the presumption of good was very important.
Set in 1996, the story follows Ana, a young firefighter responding to an emergency at a retirement home during Rio de Janeiro’s worst storm. As her team attempts to evacuate the elderly residents, Ana uncovers sinister undercurrents and must confront her own past trauma to escape.
The film marks Ponce’s second feature, following “History of the Occult,” which won awards at Mar del Plata. He co-wrote the screenplay with Gabriela Capello and André Pereira. Pereira and Mariana Muniz produced through their Lupa Filmes banner.
Brazilian actor Marjorie Estiano, known for her International Emmy-nominated role in Globo’s “Under Pressure” and Locarno winner “Good Manners,” stars alongside Chandelly Braz and Javier Drolas.
Ponce said: “For me, the idea of evil based on the presumption of good was very important.
- 9/3/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
A few years ago, I had the chance to visit the set of the Brazilian horror film The Trace We Leave Behind (a.k.a. O Rastro), which didn’t quite get the big international release it was originally supposed to, but did turn out to be a cool movie. You can read my review at This Link. The Trace We Leave Behind turned out so well, I’m very glad to hear that producer André Pereira has made a new horror film, this time teaming up with History of the Occult director Cristian Ponce for A Mother’s Embrace.
Variety got their hands on a couple first-look images from A Mother’s Embrace, and those can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Directed by Ponce from a script he wrote with Pereira and Gabriela Capello, this film is set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro.
Variety got their hands on a couple first-look images from A Mother’s Embrace, and those can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Directed by Ponce from a script he wrote with Pereira and Gabriela Capello, this film is set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro.
- 6/23/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The filmmaker behind History of the Occult, which is now streaming on Screambox, Cristian Ponce is back this year with brand new horror movie A Mother’s Embrace.
Brazil’s Lupa Filmes is bringing A Mother’s Embrace to Cannes, and ahead of the festival they’ve shared a couple first-look images with Variety this afternoon.
Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, A Mother’s Embrace will see a team of firefighters trying to evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing.
But its mysterious residents have other plans.
Marjorie Estiano, Chandelly Braz, Javier Drolas, Maria Volpe, Mel Nunes and Reynaldo Machado star.
“One of our biggest influences is John Carpenter, who always tells stories about people stuck in some places they cannot escape,” Cristian Ponce said in a statement.
He added, “We try to create our own mythology here. You could say that these people,...
Brazil’s Lupa Filmes is bringing A Mother’s Embrace to Cannes, and ahead of the festival they’ve shared a couple first-look images with Variety this afternoon.
Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, A Mother’s Embrace will see a team of firefighters trying to evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing.
But its mysterious residents have other plans.
Marjorie Estiano, Chandelly Braz, Javier Drolas, Maria Volpe, Mel Nunes and Reynaldo Machado star.
“One of our biggest influences is John Carpenter, who always tells stories about people stuck in some places they cannot escape,” Cristian Ponce said in a statement.
He added, “We try to create our own mythology here. You could say that these people,...
- 5/11/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Brazil’s Lupa Filmes has revealed first-look images for Cristian Ponce’s upcoming survival horror “A Mother’s Embrace” – co-produced by Morbido Group’s Pablo Guisa Koestinger – ahead of its bow at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion, where genre industry professionals will also be treated to the sneak peak of the trailer.
Previously behind animated webseries “The Kirlian Frequency”, acquired by Netflix, in 2020 Ponce directed big breakout “History of the Occult,” which marked his feature debut. The film was described as the highest-rated horror movie of 2021 on Letterboxd’s Year in Review roundup, as voted by users of the film rating social platform.
Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, “A Mother’s Embrace” will see a team of firefighters trying to evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing. But its mysterious residents have other plans.
“Rio is known for its warm weather and beaches,...
Previously behind animated webseries “The Kirlian Frequency”, acquired by Netflix, in 2020 Ponce directed big breakout “History of the Occult,” which marked his feature debut. The film was described as the highest-rated horror movie of 2021 on Letterboxd’s Year in Review roundup, as voted by users of the film rating social platform.
Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, “A Mother’s Embrace” will see a team of firefighters trying to evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing. But its mysterious residents have other plans.
“Rio is known for its warm weather and beaches,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Enterre Seus Mortos
We’ve been big fans of the filmmaker since he broke out with Locarno preemed Hard Labor (2011) and Un Certain Regard selected Good Manners (2017) – both co-directed with Juliana Rojas. He hit Berlinale with 2020’s All the Dead Ones (read review) and could return to the Golden Bear comp with his latest work – the book to film adaptation of Ana Paula Maia’s Enterre Seus Mortos. Marco Dutra moved into production back in February of last year in Rio de Janerio with players Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano and Betty Faria grabbing top billing. Dutra reteamed with his Good Manners cinematographer Rui Poças.…...
We’ve been big fans of the filmmaker since he broke out with Locarno preemed Hard Labor (2011) and Un Certain Regard selected Good Manners (2017) – both co-directed with Juliana Rojas. He hit Berlinale with 2020’s All the Dead Ones (read review) and could return to the Golden Bear comp with his latest work – the book to film adaptation of Ana Paula Maia’s Enterre Seus Mortos. Marco Dutra moved into production back in February of last year in Rio de Janerio with players Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano and Betty Faria grabbing top billing. Dutra reteamed with his Good Manners cinematographer Rui Poças.…...
- 1/17/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
One of Brazil’s biggest film-tv stars, Marjorie Estiano – an International Emmy nominee for her performance in Globo’s “Under Pressure” and star of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas’ Locarno winner “Good Manners” – is attached to take the lead in one of the most awaited Latin American genre films of 2023, Brazilian horror feature “A Mother’s Embrace.”
The sophomore feature from Argentina’s Cristian Ponce, director of Argentine genre breakout “History of the Occult,” the highest-rated horror title on Letterboxd’s 2021 Year in Review.
“A Mother’s Embrace” is scheduled to go into production next March.
It is written by Ponce and pic’s producer André Pereira, who has Carrión at Ventana Sur’s Blood Window and whose company, Lupa Filmes, produced “The Trace We Leave Behind,” which broke 30-year-old box-office records for a Brazilian horror movie.
“A Mother¡s Embrace” proved a highlight a the Sanfic Morbido Lab 2022, where it won the pitching prize.
The sophomore feature from Argentina’s Cristian Ponce, director of Argentine genre breakout “History of the Occult,” the highest-rated horror title on Letterboxd’s 2021 Year in Review.
“A Mother’s Embrace” is scheduled to go into production next March.
It is written by Ponce and pic’s producer André Pereira, who has Carrión at Ventana Sur’s Blood Window and whose company, Lupa Filmes, produced “The Trace We Leave Behind,” which broke 30-year-old box-office records for a Brazilian horror movie.
“A Mother¡s Embrace” proved a highlight a the Sanfic Morbido Lab 2022, where it won the pitching prize.
- 11/28/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Ancient myths, religious otherworldliness, and culturally tailored re-imaginings of classic tropes or creatures populate the landscape of Latino horror. Although genre films have been present in Latin American cinema since the 1930s, over the last two decades — with the advent of digital filmmaking and increased government investment in the art form — they have exponentially flourished in the region.
Meanwhile, in the United States, Latinx audiences are known to be enthusiastic (and paying) fans of all things horror, even if Hollywood projects rarely include Latinos on screen. There are still few genre features by or about American Latinos out there, but up-and-coming storytellers are striving to change that. As streamers and studios vow to support emerging voices in entertainment, this is a space ripe for growth.
A thematically compelling quality in many of the most prominent Latino horror films is that genre often serves as a vehicle to create discourse around...
Meanwhile, in the United States, Latinx audiences are known to be enthusiastic (and paying) fans of all things horror, even if Hollywood projects rarely include Latinos on screen. There are still few genre features by or about American Latinos out there, but up-and-coming storytellers are striving to change that. As streamers and studios vow to support emerging voices in entertainment, this is a space ripe for growth.
A thematically compelling quality in many of the most prominent Latino horror films is that genre often serves as a vehicle to create discourse around...
- 10/24/2020
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Indiewire
São Paulo is transformed into a spooky fairytale landscape in this elegant, unsettling tale of a pregnant woman and her prospective employee
There’s an enjoyably inscrutable performance at the heart of this Brazilian fairytale for grownups. Clara (Isabél Zuaa), an unsmiling mystery women, arrives at the luxurious São Paulo apartment of pregnant Ana (Marjorie Estiano), to be interviewed for the position of nanny. But is that really the role on offer? And is Clara an entirely honest applicant?
The first third of this two-hour-plus film keeps us wondering. It’s clear that something is off between the women, but impossible to determine where the balance of power lies. Is this a Rosemary’s Baby-style horror about satanic foetus worship? A Parasite-like study of the subversive intimacy between domestic servant and employer? Or some unholy combination of the two? Then, with all the sprightly mischief of one of Ana’s country-music workout videos,...
There’s an enjoyably inscrutable performance at the heart of this Brazilian fairytale for grownups. Clara (Isabél Zuaa), an unsmiling mystery women, arrives at the luxurious São Paulo apartment of pregnant Ana (Marjorie Estiano), to be interviewed for the position of nanny. But is that really the role on offer? And is Clara an entirely honest applicant?
The first third of this two-hour-plus film keeps us wondering. It’s clear that something is off between the women, but impossible to determine where the balance of power lies. Is this a Rosemary’s Baby-style horror about satanic foetus worship? A Parasite-like study of the subversive intimacy between domestic servant and employer? Or some unholy combination of the two? Then, with all the sprightly mischief of one of Ana’s country-music workout videos,...
- 7/16/2020
- by Ellen E Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Mubi's series New Brazilian Cinema is showing June - September, 2020.Above: LandlessAs I write about current Brazilian cinema, Brazilian Cinemateca, the preeminent institution for preservation of the country’s film history, is in danger of collapsing. Its employees haven’t been paid for months and the reels in its archives aren’t properly protected. The country's film industry launches strikes and petitions against the government’s plan to close the organization, which would damn the cultural heritage it shelters. How to consider the urgency of contemporary Brazilian film in this dire context? Perhaps by framing it as narratives of crises and resilience. No image inscribes itself as well into this allegory as one at the end of Landless, a documentary by Camila Freitas that premiered at Berlinale: Gusts of relentless wind punish arid earth, covering a settlement of scattered humble tents in a vicious swirl of red dust. This...
- 7/6/2020
- MUBI
Comedian and actor Ronny Chieng will host the 47th International Emmy Awards Gala in New York later this month.
Conleth Hill, known for playing Lord Varys in “Game of Thrones,” will be on hand to give the Founders Award to David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of the hit HBO series, at the Nov. 25 ceremony at the New York Hilton.
Chieng, a correspondent on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” and star of “Crazy Rich Asians,” has notched sold-out standup tours, and co-wrote and starred in his own television comedy series, “Ronny Chieng: International Student,” which aired on ABC Australia, the BBC, Comedy Central Asia and Comedy Central in the U.S. His Netflix comedy special drops in December.
Businesswoman, philanthropist, author and former model Iman will present the Directorate Award to CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour was one of Variety’s Power of Women honorees earlier this year.
Conleth Hill, known for playing Lord Varys in “Game of Thrones,” will be on hand to give the Founders Award to David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of the hit HBO series, at the Nov. 25 ceremony at the New York Hilton.
Chieng, a correspondent on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” and star of “Crazy Rich Asians,” has notched sold-out standup tours, and co-wrote and starred in his own television comedy series, “Ronny Chieng: International Student,” which aired on ABC Australia, the BBC, Comedy Central Asia and Comedy Central in the U.S. His Netflix comedy special drops in December.
Businesswoman, philanthropist, author and former model Iman will present the Directorate Award to CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour was one of Variety’s Power of Women honorees earlier this year.
- 11/5/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Awards While Radhika Apte is nominated for Best Performance By An Actress for 'Lust Stories', the anthology is also competing in the TV Movie/Miniseries category.Tnm StaffThe International Emmy Awards announced its nominees on Thursday and there’s some great news for Indian entertainment as well, with a total of four nominations, including one for Best Performance By An Actress. Netflix India’s original Sacred Games, which recently released its second season has received an International Emmy nomination for Season 1 in the category of Drama Series. Lust Stories, another Netflix miniseries, got a nomination in the TV movie/miniseries category; and for her work in the same, Radhika Apte has been nominated for the Best Performance By An Actress. Amazon Prime’s The Remix-India has been nominated for the International Emmy for Non-Scripted Entertainment. Sacred Games directors Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan and Vikramaditya Motwane, The Remix host...
- 9/20/2019
- by Geetika
- The News Minute
AMC and BBC co-pro McMafia is going head to head with Netflix’s Indian drama Sacred Games for an International Emmy.
The nominations for the 2019 International Emmy Awards were unveiled today by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with 44 Nominees across 11 categories and 21 countries. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on November 25 2019 at the Hilton New York Hotel.
James Norton-fronted McMafia and Sacred Games are competing with Fox’s Brazilian drama One Against All and German thriller Bad Banks in the drama category.
Other notable nominees include Jenna Coleman in BBC drama The Cry and Christopher Eccleston in BBC’s Come Home.
In addition to the main awards, the Academy will present special awards to Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of PBS’ nightly global affairs show Amanpour and to Game of Thrones’ creators and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
“The diversity,...
The nominations for the 2019 International Emmy Awards were unveiled today by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with 44 Nominees across 11 categories and 21 countries. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on November 25 2019 at the Hilton New York Hotel.
James Norton-fronted McMafia and Sacred Games are competing with Fox’s Brazilian drama One Against All and German thriller Bad Banks in the drama category.
Other notable nominees include Jenna Coleman in BBC drama The Cry and Christopher Eccleston in BBC’s Come Home.
In addition to the main awards, the Academy will present special awards to Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of PBS’ nightly global affairs show Amanpour and to Game of Thrones’ creators and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
“The diversity,...
- 9/19/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Brazil and the U.K. lead the pack in this year’s International Emmy Awards nominations, which span 21 countries across 11 categories.
Titles and talent from Britain and Brazil will vie with other hopefuls for the trophy in five categories: drama, best performance by an actor, best performance by an actress, arts programming and documentary. Brazilian shows also won a three further nods in the comedy, short-form series and movie/miniseries categories, while a British program scored a nomination for non-scripted entertainment.
Other countries with more than one nod include Germany, Australia, Belgium, Argentina, Hungary and India.
“The diversity, geographic spread and quality of this year’s nominees is a testament to the increasing wealth of outstanding television being created on a global scale,” Bruce L. Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, said Thursday. “We congratulate the nominees for their outstanding achievements.”
The International Academy...
Titles and talent from Britain and Brazil will vie with other hopefuls for the trophy in five categories: drama, best performance by an actor, best performance by an actress, arts programming and documentary. Brazilian shows also won a three further nods in the comedy, short-form series and movie/miniseries categories, while a British program scored a nomination for non-scripted entertainment.
Other countries with more than one nod include Germany, Australia, Belgium, Argentina, Hungary and India.
“The diversity, geographic spread and quality of this year’s nominees is a testament to the increasing wealth of outstanding television being created on a global scale,” Bruce L. Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, said Thursday. “We congratulate the nominees for their outstanding achievements.”
The International Academy...
- 9/19/2019
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
"Genre defying and genuinely unexpected." Distrib Films Us has debuted another new trailer for the highly underrated Brazilian horror film Good Manners, or originally As Boas Maneiras in Portuguese. I've been talking up this film ever since the London Film Festival last year. The first Us trailer is not very good, but this is a much better trailer that finally gets into it more. Good Manners reinvents the werewolf genre in a completely eye-opening, breathtaking way. The story is about a lonely nurse hired by a wealthy, mysterious woman named Ana to be the the nanny for her unborn child. But she soon realizes things are a bit strange when she discovers Ana sleepwalks at night. Isabél Zuaa stars in this, with Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo, Cida Moreira, Andréa Marquee, and Felipe Kenji. I flipped for it last year and haven't stopped thinking about it - read my review. Hopefully...
- 7/16/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"He's a strong boy, Ana." Distrib Films Us has released an official trailer for an underrated Brazilian horror film titled Good Manners, or originally As Boas Maneiras in Portuguese. The is one of the most original, clever, craziest genre films I have ever seen, I'm still blown away thinking about it. Good Manners reinvents the werewolf genre in a completely eye-opening, breathtaking way. The story is about a lonely nurse hired by a wealthy, mysterious woman named Ana to be the the nanny for her unborn child. But she soon realizes things are a bit strange when she discovers Ana sleepwalks at night looking for prey. Isabél Zuaa stars, with a cast including Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo, Cida Moreira, Andréa Marquee, and Felipe Kenji. I saw this film at a festival last year, and flipped for it. I wrote in my review: "It will make you freak out and laugh...
- 6/25/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Contrasts abound in Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s terrifyingly captivating Good Manners, a horror-meets-children’s-movie that uses all the tropes at its disposal to conjure up a piercing discussion of class, race, and desire in present-day Brazil. Six years after their collaborative debut, Hard Labor (2011), the writer-directors return to the theme of social divisions, this time to tackle it through the unconventional lens of werewolf mythology in a fantasy-fueled melodrama that should inject a much-needed revitalizing serum into a stagnating genre.
An unemployed professional caretaker from one of São Paulo’s poorer suburbs, dark-skinned Clara (a remarkable Isabél Zuaa) lands a gig as a live-in nanny at a fancy high-rise apartment. Her employer, pregnant Ana (Marjorie Estiano), is an entitled, white 29-year-old from a rich plantation family: shunned from her relatives after she refused to abort, she now awaits the due date indulging in compulsive shopping and steak eating.
An unemployed professional caretaker from one of São Paulo’s poorer suburbs, dark-skinned Clara (a remarkable Isabél Zuaa) lands a gig as a live-in nanny at a fancy high-rise apartment. Her employer, pregnant Ana (Marjorie Estiano), is an entitled, white 29-year-old from a rich plantation family: shunned from her relatives after she refused to abort, she now awaits the due date indulging in compulsive shopping and steak eating.
- 4/10/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Cannes — “The Seamstress,” a Globo mini-series, sports a credit sequence which begins with a burnished brown cloth being sewn. The color is a reference to Brazil’s bone dry scrubland backlands in the North-East, the sewing to the occupation of two sisters, Emilia and Luzia, who grow up at a small homestead on the sertao with their doting aunt.
Emilia dreams of moving to the big city Recife; Luzia thinks she’ll die on the serrao, just fears losing Emilia the only person she has. Luzia is abducted by a local cangaceiro, a bandit, Hawk whom she falls in love with. Emily meets her Prince Charming, a rich city boy, moves to glamorous Recife, suffers loneliness as she realizes her husband is in love with another man.
Directed by Breno da Silveira but written by Patricia Andrade, “The Seamstress” is an intimate epic, charting two sisters’ dramatically different life journeys,...
Emilia dreams of moving to the big city Recife; Luzia thinks she’ll die on the serrao, just fears losing Emilia the only person she has. Luzia is abducted by a local cangaceiro, a bandit, Hawk whom she falls in love with. Emily meets her Prince Charming, a rich city boy, moves to glamorous Recife, suffers loneliness as she realizes her husband is in love with another man.
Directed by Breno da Silveira but written by Patricia Andrade, “The Seamstress” is an intimate epic, charting two sisters’ dramatically different life journeys,...
- 4/9/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
This year, Fantastic Fest turned 13, a number that felt apt if you’ve been following the news. Most conversations started like this:
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
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“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
- 9/29/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- Indiewire
There is the family you are born into, and the family you make; lovers who stay with you a long time, and ones whose time with you is brief, but make a lasting impact. What then is the nature of love and devotion? Can we love both the person and the monster inside? In Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra's latest feature film Good Manners, a magic-realist fairy tale, love and devotion, class division, and the monster inside us all are deftly explored. Clara (Isabél Zuaa) is a lonely nurse still grieving over the , living in poor conditions, who takes a job as a nanny and housekeeper to the equally lonely Ana (Marjorie Estiano), a wealthy white woman soon expecting her first child. Clara moves...
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- 9/24/2017
- Screen Anarchy
"Is he normal?" A trailer has arrived online for a Brazilian fantasy horror film titled Good Manners, which just premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and is also playing at the Sitges Film Festival coming up. The story is about a lonely nurse hired by a wealthy, mysterious woman named Ana to be the the nanny for her unborn child. But she soon realizes things are a bit strange when she discovers Ana sleepwalks around the house at night looking for prey. Isabél Zuaa stars, with a cast including Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo, Cida Moreira, Andréa Marquee, and Felipe Kenji. This looks very peculiar and eerie, but it's that final shot with the freaky dog (boy?) that really sells this. I dig the hand drawn poster art, too. Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas' Good Manners, direct from YouTube: Clara (Isabél Zuaa), a...
- 8/10/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Brazilian writer/director team of Marcu Dutra and Juliana Rojas first garnered international attention a few years back after the very successful debut of Hard Labour (review), a movie I rather enjoyed when it premiered in 2011.
Their latest Good Manners, is also a meditation on horror but this one looks far, far stranger.
Marjorie Estiano stars as Ana, a well-to-do mother-to-be who hires Clara (Isabel Zuaa) to be her unborn baby's nanny and until said baby is born, to look after Ana but it's clear to Clara that something's not quite right with this picture. Ana seems trapped in her enormous home and she sleepwalks at night as one [Continued ...]...
Their latest Good Manners, is also a meditation on horror but this one looks far, far stranger.
Marjorie Estiano stars as Ana, a well-to-do mother-to-be who hires Clara (Isabel Zuaa) to be her unborn baby's nanny and until said baby is born, to look after Ana but it's clear to Clara that something's not quite right with this picture. Ana seems trapped in her enormous home and she sleepwalks at night as one [Continued ...]...
- 8/8/2017
- QuietEarth.us
Early August is usually a transitional moment, when the summer movie season winds down to set the stage for the fall, and most moviegoers are catching up on highlights from the last few weeks. But for a few thousand people attending the Locarno Film Festival, a whole new set of discoveries await.
The Swiss festival is one of the major European film events of the summer, offering a range of new titles that encompass multiple genres and national cinemas, many of which will go on to play at other big festivals later this year. Here’s a look at some of the most promising films in this year’s lineup; expect to hear more about them in the near future. (Stay tuned for more essays on this year’s lineup from participants in the 2017 Locarno Critics Academy.)
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The Swiss festival is one of the major European film events of the summer, offering a range of new titles that encompass multiple genres and national cinemas, many of which will go on to play at other big festivals later this year. Here’s a look at some of the most promising films in this year’s lineup; expect to hear more about them in the near future. (Stay tuned for more essays on this year’s lineup from participants in the 2017 Locarno Critics Academy.)
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- 8/2/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
You’d be forgiven for buying into the genial peace the pervades the first half of this exclusive trailer for “Hard Labor” filmmakers Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s latest feature. After all, the opening minute or so of this first look at their “Good Manners” plays up the bond between Clara (Isabél Zuaa), a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, who is hired by the mysterious and wealthy Ana (Marjorie Estiano) as the nanny of her unborn child.
And then things change. In a very, very big way. The film follows the pair as they prepare for the imminent birth of Ana’s child, a terrifying enough period made all the worse by the sense that not all is right with the baby, or with Ana.
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In an official statement, Rojas and...
And then things change. In a very, very big way. The film follows the pair as they prepare for the imminent birth of Ana’s child, a terrifying enough period made all the worse by the sense that not all is right with the baby, or with Ana.
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In an official statement, Rojas and...
- 7/31/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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