In the intense now (2017)

Original title

No Intenso Agora

Directed by

João Moreira Salles

Genre

documentary film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

2h 07m

Rated

12

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary uses home movies and archival footage to look back at the political upheavals of the 1960s, including the 1968 protests in France, Brazil's military coup, China's Cultural Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The director narrates his own thoughts about how revolutionary moments fade and how public events mix with private memories.

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What happens

In the Intense Now (Portuguese: No Intenso Agora) is a 2017 Brazilian documentary film directed and narrated by João Moreira Salles. The film explores the political and emotional climate of the 1960s, focusing on the events of May 1968 in France, the military coup in Brazil (1964), the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968). Combining archival footage with personal narration, Salles reflects on the transient nature of revolutionary fervor and the contrast between public history and private memory. The documentary premiered at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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