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Twenty Years Later

1984 · 119 min

A slow, sorrowful excavation of interrupted lives and political violence, watching memory and loss unfold with quiet, devastating force.

Directed by
Eduardo Coutinho
Genres
Documentary, History
Starring
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar
Overview
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

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Directed by
Eduardo Coutinho
Genres
Documentary, History
Starring
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 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
  • memory
  • justice
  • grief
  • politics
  • violence
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism10
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
documentary, history
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos, Eduardo Escorel
Cinematography
Fernando Duarte, Edgar Moura
Runtime
119 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Spanish, Portuguese

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