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Movie poster: Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002)
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Master, a Building in Copacabana

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2002 · 110 min Documentary
8.1 / 10 · TMDB

Thirty-seven families inhabit a twelve-story concrete monolith facing Copacabana beach. The camera slips past apartment doors, a silent witness to the daily ritual. An elderly woman irons clothes before a flickering TV, a young man gazes at the sea from his window, a mother hushes children to sleep. Through thin walls drift the echoes of neighborly arguments, laughter, a distant radio. Each floor is a self-contained universe, holding private dreams of a better life, fears of solitude, and intimate revelations whispered to the peeling paint.

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Original Title Edifício Master
Year 2002
Country Brazil
Genre Documentary
Director Eduardo Coutinho
Runtime 110 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.1/10 (54 votes)

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Eduardo Coutinho transforms an ordinary apartment block into an epic poem of human habitation. His camera refrains from judgment, observing with a patient gaze that finds drama in a simple gesture and beauty in cracked tile.

What lingers after viewing is a profound sense of shared space, as if you've briefly inhabited each cramped room and narrow hallway. The film turns architecture into a living portrait of urban solitude and quiet resilience — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Eduardo Coutinho

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