A man living with his parents in a low middle-class apartment in Rio de Janeiro coldly stabs them with a razor and then goes to the movies. Marcia, a rich and dissatisfied young woman, takes advantage of a trip from her husband to go to her home in Petrópolis, where she receives a visit from an old friend, Regina.
Direction
Bressane's 64-minute punk manifesto against narrative
Cinematography
Black-and-white that makes Rio look deliciously rotten
Writing
Dialogue so mundane it becomes weaponized
Director
Júlio Bressane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brazil's military dictatorship, the film's nihilism was a middle finger to state-mandated optimism. The Cinema Marginal movement deliberately rejected polished 'quality' cinema.
Bressane allegedly shot this in five days with borrowed equipment. The flatness isn't amateurism—it's aesthetic strategy, forcing you to sit with horror without the relief of cinematic catharsis.
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