From Beginning to End (2009)

Original title

Do Começo ao Fim

Directed by

Aluizio Abranches

Genre

drama film, romance film, coming-of-age film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

18

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 185 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two brothers grow up together and develop a romantic and sexual relationship as adults. The film follows their life from childhood to adulthood, focusing on the bond between them.

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What happens

From Beginning to End (Portuguese: Do Começo ao Fim) is a 2009 Brazilian romantic drama film directed by Aluizio Abranches, starring Fábio Assunção, Júlia Lemmertz, Gabriel Kaufmann, Lucas Cotrim, João Gabriel Vasconcellos and Rafael Cardoso. It premiered in Brazil on November 27, 2009. The film deals with homosexuality and incest, two types of relationships that are often considered to be taboo. Abranches claims that his only intention was to tell a love story. The release of the film in Brazil, with only nine copies, was seen by almost 100,000 spectators, leading the film to be on the list of the top 10 most watched Brazilian films of 2009. It was shown in more than 30 national and international festivals, and it was also commercialized in more than 30 countries. In 2010 it was released in DVD in Brazil with success. In France, after a very successful premiere in the cinemas, the first edition of the DVD and Blu-ray was sold out in less than two weeks, and it became a best seller internationally through websites such as Fnac and Amazon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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