This is a widely acclaimed film from Brazil, but, honestly, I disagree. I am not happy to say that. As I like a lot both Leon Hirzman and Othon Bastos, I had great expectation for this adaptation of Graciliano Ramos's novel. Well, I dot not think it was a good one. Off course cinematography is beautiful and the text is good, but the film is boring and I could not get involved throughout the movie. There is too much narration and too few of those events happen in front of spectators. That is not the way one adapts a novel into cinema. It would be a problem if it were a short film, but, as it is a feature movie, the outcome is a terrible sluggish pace. The feelings of the main character are mostly informed through narration to spectator instead of transmitted through the shown situations. I am tired and disappointed.
Review of São Bernardo
