Casa Grande

...eloquent visuals, strong central performance, and empathetic humor push it to the forefront.
-- Nicola Rapold, Film Comment

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Casa Grande

Coming-of-age as rude awakening: one high school senior’s dawning sexuality is shadowed by the discovery of his upper-class white family’s looming financial ruin. Polished and penetrating, Casa Grande renders a sharp social canvas of contemporary Brazil through the eyes of young Jean (Thales Cavalcanti), who struggles with newfound knowledge of his racial and class privilege as he courts a mixed-race girl from a lower-ranked school than his.
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
115
Language
Portuguese
Director
Fellipe Barbosa
Cast
Marcello Novaes Suzana Pires
FEATURED REVIEW
Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter

The travails of a Rio de Janeiro 17-year-old are used as a prism to explore wider issues facing 21st-century Brazil in Casa Grande, a confident and quietly promising feature debut from director/co-writer Fellipe Barbosa. Showcasing a fine, consistently believable and sympathetic central performance ...

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