1969 · experimental · udigrudi
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
Directed by Júlio Bressane1h 4m1969
A man living with his parents in a low middle-class apartment in Rio de Janeiro coldly stabs them with a razor and then goes to the movies. Marcia, a rich and dissatisfied young woman, takes advantage of a trip from her husband to go to her home in Petrópolis, where she receives a visit from an old friend, Regina.
Our read: Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1969) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal experimental · udigrudi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured experimental / udigrudi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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