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Poster for Górgona

Górgona

2016 · 77 min

A quiet, contemplative documentary that immerses you in the repetitive rhythms of performance and the visible passage of time.

Directed by
Pedro Jezler, Fábio Furtado
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Maria Alice Vergueiro, Danilo Grangheia, Pascoal da Conceição
Overview
The show shows the setting of a play and brings Maria Alice Vergueiro, a septuagenarian actress afflicted by Parkinson's disease, as protagonist. The movements are repeated to exhaustion and placed in comparison to show the passage of time to the actress, for whom this becomes much more noticeable.

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Directed by
Pedro Jezler, Fábio Furtado
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Maria Alice Vergueiro, Danilo Grangheia, Pascoal da Conceição
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • aging
  • work
  • identity
  • survival
  • art
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Pedro Jezler, Fábio Furtado
Starring
Maria Alice Vergueiro, Danilo Grangheia, Pascoal da Conceição, Luciano Chirolli
Runtime
77 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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