Hoje É Dia de Maria (2005)

Original title

Hoje é Dia de Maria

Directed by

Luiz Fernando Carvalho

Genre

drama

Country

Brazil

Length

2 seasons, 13 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Brazilian miniseries that adapts traditional folktales from the country's oral storytelling tradition. It follows the journey of a girl named Maria through fantastical and folkloric episodes.

whimsicaltheatricalpoeticplayfulauthenticvisually innovativedreamlikefolkloric

What happens

Hoje É Dia de Maria (English: Today Is Maria's Day) was a Brazilian miniseries directed and written by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, co-written by Luis Alberto de Abreu and Carlos Alberto Soffredini, basing themselves on a selection of stories taken from popular Brazilian oral storytelling tradition, collected by the writers Câmara Cascudo, Mário de Andrade and Sílvio Romero. It was produced in 8 episodes and exhibited in 2005 by Rede Globo. Compared with To the Left of the Father on account of its innovative television language, it caught the attention of critics and public by its novel, theatrical and playful language in transporting the universe of popular culture to a sophisticated television production, without losing its authenticity. The critic Nilson Xavier considers it one of the most poetic, original and beautiful productions of recent years. According to Jean-Philippe Tessé, in the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, the mini-series was very ambitious and formally very well produced, following other noteworthy projects such as The Maias (Os Maias). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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