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Encantado (2018)
A strong poetic journey into Brazilian history
As a Frenchman who lived for years in Brazil and knowing this country, its people, this film touched me in a special way. I saw many other documentaries about recent Brazilian history. And I didn't saw any one that gives the common and poor anonymous people the same place than political and intellectual mainstream personalities. I saw it in the film especially when the director returns to his homeland, his neighborhood of "Encantado", and captures the devastation, the desolation, the despair of its inhabitants, that tell us their lives. With impressive images (I loved the way protests and projections were filmed), this film carried me in a journey back to the tragic history of Brazil, in a strongly poetic narrative that reminded me Chris Maker's documentaries or Terence Malick's cinema.