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Dry Ground Burning

Mato seco em chamas

2022

Adirley Queirós, Joana Pimenta

Joana Darc, Léa Alves, Andreia Vieira, Débora Alencar, Gleide Firmino

6.0

54

Sci-Fi. Drama In the Sol Nascente favela on the edge of Brasília, a group of women hijack a pipeline to sell oil to the community. A heady mix of documentary observation, heist film and science fiction in which non-professional actors play versions of themselves.

	Media	Author	Review
		Leonardo Goi The Film Stage	"A furious, queer, boisterous gangster epic that offers a view of the country from the outskirts and turns oppression into resistance."
		Phuong Le The Guardian	"Engrossing portrait of all-female gang in Brasilia favela (...) electrifying Brazilian tale of rebellion (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wes Greene Slant	"Through the means of cinema, Léa, a long-downtrodden member of society, is able to fulfill one last fantasy of revenge against a brutal, unjust system by performing a vibrant and fantastical act of rebellion (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Dustin Chang Screen Anarchy	"A cinematic act of political defiance"
		David Katz Cineuropa	"'Mato seco em chamas' springs out of another fashionable notion which has enraptured much global art cinema this century: that there need be no rigid distinction between documentary and fictional modes"

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