The Movie of My Life
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | O Filme da Minha Vida |
| Year | 2017 |
| Country | Brazil |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Selton Mello |
| Runtime | 113 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 7.3/10 (118 votes) |
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The film constructs a quiet meditation on fatherhood and identity, relying on the contrast between the protagonist's poetic inner world and the harsh reality of the Brazilian hinterlands. It explores cinema itself as a lens for understanding life.
What lingers after viewing is a sense of luminous melancholy, where a search for one man becomes a journey into the self. The resolution suggests that some answers are found only when we stop looking for them. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Selton Mello
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