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Pictures of Ghosts
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Director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau, Aquarius) explores his home city through the great movie theatres which played such a vital role in fostering his love for the medium.
Combining archive documentary, mystery, film clips and personal memories, Pictures of Ghosts is a moving and playful film that examines both the architectural and social structures of his home city and his relationship to cinema and the spaces it inhabits.
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“The buildings may one day rot, but everyone in Recife can now point to this urgent, moving piece of preservation and find in it an eternal record of its film history.”
Guilherme Jacobs, IndieWire
“In comparing and contrasting contemporary streets and buildings with various depictions in photographs and on film, Pictures of Ghosts offers a personally-skewed document of vibrant social history, one which attempts to deal with a fluctuating urban topography through the lens of time.”
David Jenkins, Little White Lies
“A documentary that feels acutely, even eccentrically, personal, but never navel-gazing.”
Guy Lodge, Variety
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