2008 · drama · social
Linha de Passe
Directed by Daniela Thomas, Walter Salles1h 48m2008
In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class family. Each of her sons has a different unknown father: the oldest, Dênis, has a baby son that lives with his mother and he works as motorcycle courier.
Our read: Linha de Passe (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / social, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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