Kinematografie: Brasilien entflammt

A vizinhança do tigre

The Hidden Tiger
Affonso Uchôa
Brasilien 2014
96 min
V'19

Contagem ist eine Stadt im Bundesstaat Minas Gerais, das Viertel Nacional eine Gegend mit einfachen Gebäuden, eigenwilligen Architekturen und dunklen nächtlichen Straßen. Hier leben Juninho, Menor, Neguinho, Adilson und Eldo, eine Gruppe von Jugendlichen zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein. Doch handelt es sich bei A VIZINHANÇA DO TIGRE um kein leicht nacherzählbares Coming-of-Age in peripherer Abgeschiedenheit. Auf ungewöhnlich beiläufige wie ästhetisch bewusste Weise begleitet der Film jugendlichen Alltag zwischen Arbeit, Freizeit, Verbrechen und Träumereien. Mit einfühlsamem Blick erschaft Afonso Uchôa eine subtile Poetik der Freundschaft. (Martin Schlesinger)

In Anwesenheit von Affonso Uchôa.

 

Affonso Uchôa’s first feature is about several young people living in the neighborhood of Contagem, near Belo Horizonte. It is the polar opposite of several reactionary Brazilian films which tend to portray life in the periphery as part of a context saturated with inescapable, ineludible abjection, proving that with sociologic lucidity and a little cinematic sensitivity, you can shoot everyday life and show just the opposite. This doesn’t mean that some of the risks associated with drug dealing and thievery are absent from the reality shared by Juninho, Menor, Neguinho, Adilson, and Eldo; yet desire, friendship, labor, music, and a few moments of leisure function as obvious counter- weights here to the sort of characterization that much of Brazilian cinema holds in great esteem. Neither a documentary nor a fiction, A VIZINHANÇA DO TIGRE is a portrait-like tale in which each scene reveals a way of being in the world and where writing constitutes a central practice for the characters’ symbolic universe – a central feature in Uchoa’s films. (Roger Koza)

In the presence of Affonso Uchôa.

Credits
  • Aristides de Sousa - Cristiano
  • Maurício Chagas
  • Wederson Patrício
  • João Dumans
  • Affonso Uchôa
  • Aristides de Sousa
  • Wederson Patrício
  • Maurício Chagas
  • Adílson Cordeiro and Eldo Rodrigues
  • Affonso Uchôa
  • Pedro Durães
  • Warley Desali
  • Luiz Pretti
  • João Dumans
  • Affonso Uchoa
  • Eldo Rodrigues
Vasto Mundo, A produtora, Katásia Filmes

Affonso Uchôa

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