The Man of the Crowd

Name: O Homem das Multidões
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-07-31
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Paulo André, Sílvia Lourenço, Jean-Claude Bernardet

Original title: O Homem das Multidões

2013
Unrated
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

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Drama

Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes, two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today, have crafted an elegant, parsimoni... Read allLoosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes, two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today, have crafted an elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver in Belo Horizonte, an... Read allLoosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes, two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today, have crafted an elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver in Belo Horizonte, and his encounter with Margo, a station controller. Emphasizing the theme of alienation in P... Read all

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Awards
- 4 wins & 2 nominations

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Trivia
Part 3 of the Trilogy on Solitude, together with The Soul of the Bone (2004) and Drifter (2007).

Soundtracks
Suíte Para Solidão I
Performed by O'Grivo (as O Grivo)

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Featured review

8/10

Sad and melancholic...

A film that talks about different forms of loneliness in Brazilian society through the lives of Juvenal and Margô. One is the driver in the Minas Gerais subway, while the other is responsible for the flow of trains.

A slow film, so slow, that when you accelerate it remains at normal speed... A slowness that brings with it all the melancholy and simplicity in the lives of ordinary men, workers hoping for better days... Based on the short story The Man of the Crowd, by Edgar Allan Poe, who reminded me of an excerpt from a documentary about the lives of train drivers, filled with trauma and loneliness, practically every day they encounter suicides on their routes... Sad and melancholic...