BERLIN - Making films in a bitterly divided Brazil that is increasingly hostile to artistic freedom is an act of resistance in itself, the maker of a new drama about race relations in the years after the country abolished slavery said.
“There’s an attempt to put a straitjacket on this expressive force,” he told reporters at the Berlin Film Festival, known as the Berlinale. “We have to be present on the world stage and also in the domestic arena with commercial successes, because that shows the strength Brazilian art has.” Dominated by four powerful female characters - the ex-slave Ina and two sisters and a mother from a formerly wealthy bourgeois family brought low by the abolition of slavery in 1888, “All the Dead Ones” tackles all three prejudices head on.
And it took this long to say what.....?Brazil was also built on slavery...?.l.
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