Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Brazilian Film Series
2009
Thursday, September 10 7:00 - 9:00 PM WY 005
MEU NOME NÃO É JONNY/ My Name Ain’t Johnny
(Drama) Brazil, 2008. 124 min.
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Director: Mauro Lima
Based on the life of the charismatic João Guilherme Estrella (Selton Mello), who from wealthy middle-class roots, fell into a life of Bohemian abandon and became the drug-trafficking king of Rio de Janeiro by the early 1990s.
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Thursday, September 17 7:00 - 9:00 PM WH 120
O CÉU DE SUELY/Love For Sale: Suely In The Sky
(Drama) Brazil / France / Germany / Portugal, 2006. 90 min.
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Director: Karim Aïnouz
After two years of living in São Paulo, Hermila returns to her village in northeastern Brazil with her newborn son and anxiously awaits for the arrival of her son’s father. Time passes slowly and the wait becomes an even heavier burden as she begins to realize that she's been abandoned. Determined to raise enough money to escape her stifling hometown, she comes up with an unlikely prize to raffle off--one conceived during her chats with a newfound friend and local prostitute, Georgina.
Thursday, September 24 7:00 - 9:00 PM WY 005
LINHA DE PASSE/ Juggling
(Drama) Brazil-France. 2008. 108 min.
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Directors: Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas.
São Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200 kilometers of traffic, 300,000 messengers on motorcycles. At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four brothers try to reinvent themselves in different ways. With the backdrop of Brazil in a state of emergency, every single one is looking for a way out.
Thursday, October 1 7:00 - 9:00 PM WY 005
A DONA DA HISTÓRIA/Owner of the Story
(Romantic comedy) Brazil, 2004. 87 min.
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Director: Daniel Filho
A 50 year-old woman pictures herself when she was 20 years-old and re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerable possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and gone to the theater? How would her life have been different?
Free and open to the public
