Durval Discos (2002)

Directed by

Anna Muylaert

Genre

comedy film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged hippie runs a vinyl record shop in São Paulo that becomes his entire world. As strange customers and a mysterious new presence enter his life, the story takes a darker turn that changes everything.

absurdistdarkly comicnostalgicquirkylightheartedshift-in-tonecerebralatmospheric

What happens

Durval Discos is a 2002 Brazilian absurdist black comedy film written and directed by Anna Muylaert shot in Pinheiros, a borough of São Paulo. The film is noticeable for its soundtrack made up of 1970s Brazilian music that reflects the protagonist's taste, as he is himself a hippie, as well as André Abujamra's original score, more present in the film's second, darker half. The shift of mood from the first part to the second was advertised as life's A and B sides, a reference to the film's homage to LPs. Abujamra makes a small comical appearance as the character Fat Marley and Brazilian rock singer Rita Lee also has a brief cameo as an eccentric customer who forgets to take the vinyl she has just bought. Some of the records shown in the store include Caetano Veloso's white, signed 1969 album and Tim Maia's Racional, a two-volume album highly sought in Brazil due to its cult status. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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