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All the Dead Ones

Todos os Mortos

2020

Marco Dutra, Caetano Gotardo

Mawusi Tulani, Clarissa Kiste, Carolina Bianchi, Thaia Perez ...

5.6

56

Drama 1899. Slavery has recently been abolished in Brazil. After the death of their last housemaid, the three women of the Soares family are at a loss in the rapidly expanding city of São Paulo. The family, which once owned coffee plantations, is now on the brink of ruin and struggling to adapt. At the same time, the Nascimento family, who used to work as slaves on the Soares’ farm, now find themselves adrift in a society in which there is no ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"The obviously calculated construction of each role hinders emotional involvement (...) The film’s worthy goals are hampered by an obviousness that favors exposition over subtlety"	NEU
United States	Ed Frankl The Film Stage	"An accomplished film (...) rich in the nation’s poetry and music, daring in highlighting women’s voices while commenting on Brazil’s history of inequality of wealth, class, and race."	POS
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Sometimes, as a critic, you really love the film that the filmmakers were trying to make — even though they failed, perhaps even spectacularly, to actually make it (...) [This] is one such film."	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"The film shows plenty of ambition and imagination delivered with considerable visual elegance, yet still ends up feeling somewhat airlessly conceptual."	NEU

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