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Nise: The Heart of Madness

Nise: O Coração da Loucura

2015

Roberto Berliner

Glória Pires, Simone Mazzer, Julio Adrião, Claudio Jaborandy ...

7.4

444

Drama A miracle happened in Brazil on the 1950's. Renowned modern art museums opened their doors to artists nobody ever heard of. Many critics pointed out that theses exhibitions revealed painters that should be ranked amongst the best brazillian artists of the century. It was written that this explosion of art and beauty was a sign that something comparable to the renaissance was happening in Riio de Janeiro. Behind this miracle there was no ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"The territory couldn’t be more delicate, but 'Nise: The Heart of Madness', a mesmerizing drama from Brazil, navigates it skillfully to create a portrait of a real-life doctor"	POS
United States	Village Voice	"The actors’ portrayals of psychiatric patients’ conditions — and their humanity — ring true."	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"[The script] has its powerful moments but so deifies Silveira that the movie turns into a black-and-white struggle between a caring, enlightened woman and a cadre of hard-hearted, benighted men."	NEU
United States	Jonathan Holland The Hollywood Reporter	"Elegantly [combines] a triumph-over-adversity yarn with a sensitive exploration of the redemptive power of artistic creation"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"[A] conventional but well-crafted take on the true story of campaigning Brazilian psychiatrist Nise da Silveira."	POS

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