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Submissions for Best International Feature (Academy Awards 2024)

Retratos fantasmas

2023

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Documentary, Self: Kleber Mendonça Filho

6.8

121

Documentary. Drama A multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking.

	Media	Author	Review
		Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A heartfelt love letter to filmmaking (...) Though there are longueurs, it’s still a pleasure to take a stroll with one of Brazil’s most eclectic cineastes"
		Rafaela Sales Ross The Playlist	"A rich chronicling of cinephilia that gathered over 70 critics and filmmakers to discuss cinema in all of its joys and contradictions."
		Guilherme Jacob IndieWire	"'Retratos fantasma' has still immortalized the city's greatest cinemas"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"A wider paean to an endangered communal culture of cinemagoing"
		Brad Hanford Slant	"As always with Mendonça Filho, to reflect reality isn’t enough, as cinema has to find its own truth, even if it takes some imagination to get there (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Dmitry Samarov Chicago Reader	"It’s like celestial time travel while rarely leaving one’s childhood block"
		Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"A lovely, enveloping film (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		David Katz Cineuropa	"A devised metafictional skit that would sound corny on paper and as explained, but is executed with dry wit"

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