Your hometown bestie returns in a Porsche. What could go wrong? Everything.
Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.
Acting
Santos and Andrade's passive-aggressive beer tension is masterclass.
Cinematography
Cataguases' dusty streets become a character of broken dreams.
Direction
Villamarim lets silence do the violence. Brutal restraint.
Director
José Luiz Villamarim
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