Almost Brothers (2004)

Original title

Quase Dois Irmãos

Directed by

Lúcia Maria Murat de Vasconcelos

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shifts between the 1970s and the 2000s to tell the story of a friendship. A middle-class left-wing activist and a criminal from Rio's favelas connect across different eras.

melancholicreflectiveemotionalslow-burnpoignanttenseintimatebittersweet

What happens

Almost Brothers (Portuguese: Quase Dois Irmãos) is a 2004 Brazilian film. It was directed by Lúcia Murat and written by Murat and Paulo Lins. Switching back and forth in time between the 1970s and the 2000s, the film follows the friendship between a middle-class left-wing political activist and a criminal from Rio de Janeiro's favelas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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