Felipe Bragança Movies

A woman who is young at heart realizes her age may be catching up with her in this drama set in Northern Brazil. Bastu (Maria Sebastiana Martins Alvaro) is over eighty years old, but she's still full of the joy of living and enjoying dancing with her friends in the evenings. However, her husband Feliciano isn't as adventurous, preferring quiet nights at home, and early one morning she returns to her house to discover her spouse is dead. Bastu's grandchildren take turns looking after her as she grieves for her husband, but it becomes evident she and the kids feel Bastu needs to adjust to taking care of herself. Bastu begins hearing strange noises late at night, and she's convinced her late husband's spirit has returned to make trouble for her; hoping to appease him, she backs up his belongings and sets out on a trip to return his earthly possessions to the sea. Girimunho (aka Swirl) was directed by Helvecio Marins Jr. and Clarissa Campolina; it was the duo's first feature film. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A woman who has recently returned to her hometown village in remote, northeastern Brazil after two years of living in São Paolo refuses to allow the actions of others to dictate her fate as she keeps her eyes towards new horizons in director Karim Aïnouz's follow-up to his dynamic feature debut Madame Satã. Hermilla (Hermilla Guedes) is a single mother living a marginal existence in modern day São Paolo. Upon returning to the village in which she was raised to await the arrival of her husband, Hermilla longs for the day that her family will become whole. Her hopes gradually fade, however, when it becomes painfully obvious to Hermilla that both she and her newborn son have been abandoned. Secrets are scarce in a village such as Hermilla's, and when word gets out about her dire situation the optimism of the once hopeful mother is quickly corroded by feelings of failure and humiliation. Though she briefly rekindles a relationship with former boyfriend João Miguel (João Miguel), Hermilla's painful realization that there is no returning to the past, coupled with an enlightening conversation with thoughtful prostitute Georgina (Georgina Castro), prods the troubled mother into devising a foolproof plan to finally break free of her troubled past. After adopting the name Suely as a means of both distancing herself from her family and preparing herself for the bold journey that lies ahead, the newly transformed Hermilla determines to raffle off a most unconventional prize to finance her flight into the future. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide