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Yesterday There Were Strange Things in the Sky

2020 · 109 min

A quiet, unsettling drift through a family's unraveling, where strange events are absorbed into daily routine with eerie calm.

Directed by: Bruno Risas
Genres: Science fiction, Drama
Starring: Viviane Machado, Julius Marcondes, Iza Machado

Overview: The daily life of a family in which countless factors are disturbing: the father is unemployed, the members need to move house, the mother is abducted, and life continues as if nothing had happened.

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Directed by: Bruno Risas
Genres: Science fiction, Drama
Starring: Viviane Machado, Julius Marcondes, Iza Machado

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
isolation
trauma
class
survival
Places: home
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: science fiction, drama
Directed by: Bruno Risas
Written by: Maria Clara Escobar, Viviane Machado, Julius Marcondes, Bruno Risas
Starring: Viviane Machado, Julius Marcondes, Iza Machado, Geny Rodrigues, Bruno Risas, Flora Dias
Cinematography: Flora Dias
Runtime: 109 min
Country: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese

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