2002 · documentary
Edifício Master
Directed by Eduardo Coutinho1h 50m2002
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
Our read: Edifício Master (2002) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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