Critic

Film critic Kléber Mendonça Filho spends a decade recording conversations with colleagues and filmmakers across continents. Seventy voices — from Brazilian auteurs to European theorists and Hollywood practitioners — argue, concur, and reflect on the eternal tension between creator and interpreter. The camera captures not just words but gestures, pauses, cluttered offices, and empty cinema halls, painting a portrait of an entire community whose lives are dedicated to deciphering moving images. The dialogue orbits a fundamental question: what truly happens at the intersection of art and the attempt to explain it?