Playing (2007)

Original title

Jogo de Cena

Directed by

Eduardo Coutinho

Genre

documentary film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

12

Rating

8.4 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that mixes real women telling their own life stories with actresses performing those same stories. The film blurs the line what is true and what is performed.

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What happens

Playing (Portuguese: Jogo de Cena) is a 2007 Brazilian documentary film by Eduardo Coutinho, about the friction between truth and fiction in the cinema. In the 2010s it was ranked as number 17 on the Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films list and also number 2 in the documentary list. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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