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, 8 episodes
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.8 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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