Isabel Ribeiro Movies
- 1988
This somber political drama is taken from the best-selling autobiography of Marcelo Rubens Paiva. Mario (Marcos Breda) is a student activist who carries on in spite of losing the use of his legs in an accident. He dedicates his efforts to the memory of his late father, an activist kidnapped and murdered by the military police in the late 1970s. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marcos Breda, Malu Mader, (more)
- 1987
The story in this inventive and critically well-regarded film is told backwards, beginning in the 1980s and detailing the lives of two couples who were deeply affected by the popular song of the 1960s "Besame Mucho". From then until the 1980s, pop music defines the key moments in their lives. The effects of each situation are shown first, and then the causes are gradually revealed, culminating with the characters' college years. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Antonio Fagundes, Jose Wilker, (more)
- 1976
When a construction worker falls to his death due to a deliberate laxness in safety regulations, the construction foreman's son-in-law attempts to get some compensation from the construction company for the man's widow. Instead, he runs into obstruction after obstruction. This impassioned indictment of the fraternity of greed won the Silver Bear Award (second prize) at the 1978 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nelson Xavier, Lima Duarte, (more)
- 1973
This film is by one of the founders of Brazilian "Cinema Novo," a style of filmmaking emphasizing native Brazilian themes and highly charged and stylized religious imagery. In Rio just before Carnaval (the local version of the raucous Mardi-Gras celebration) a girl deliberately smashes a small statue of the Virgin Mary. She receives an answer to her strange prayers in the form of a handsome musician. Their relationship, with its ins and outs, is taken up as a theme by the Samba Schools, and is told, to a samba beat, in the form of the story of Tristan and Isolde. By the end of the film, they have become the voodoo gods Oxossi and Iansan. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1973
The Brazilian All Nudity Shall Be Punished is just as satirical (and silly) as its title suggests. The story concerns a straight-laced family whose very strict morals have been governed for years by their indomitable matriarch. When the old lady dies, the family tries its best to uphold her values. The arrival of a gorgeous prostitute changes everything. Director Arnaldo Jabor adapted his screenplay from a play by Nelson Rodrigues. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1970
A dedicated Padre (Nildo Parente) tries to get the upper class to return to the crumbling church. He also proposes an asylum be built for the alienated and mentally feeble. Soon he fills the asylum with those who do not share his religious beliefs while those in need go homeless. Eventually the entire town becomes an asylum in this symbolic political feature that underscores religious intolerance. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nildo Parente, Isabel Ribeiro, (more)
- 1969
A journalist is tortured by police in the wake of political and social chaos, and the information he reveals leads to the death of a popular rebel leader. The journalist recovers and is sent to interview a plantation owner who is fighting to save his land from being nationalized. Men are helpless to halt the changes that are sweeping the country. The journalist is driven off his father-in-laws land when he voices support of a rebel strongman. His younger brother tries to grab the land for himself and ingratiate himself to the new government. In a pique of revolutionary fervor, the journalist wishes for his brother's death and threatens to have his father arrested. The patriarch commits suicide after burning down his home so it will not fall into the hands of the rebels. The journalist inherits the land and all the problems of the peasants he tried to help. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Odete Lara
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