Pressed, Ripped Apart

June. 06,2019      
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.

Antônio Pitanga as  (archive footage)
Antônio Pompêo as  (archive footage)
Zezé Motta as  (archive footage)
Grande Otelo as  (archive footage)
Lázaro Ramos as  (archive footage)
Milton Gonçalves as  (archive footage)
Ruth de Souza as  (archive footage)
Léa Garcia as  (archive footage)

Reviews

Griff Lees
2019/06/06

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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Keeley Coleman
2019/06/07

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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Anoushka Slater
2019/06/08

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Lela
2019/06/09

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

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