Ernesto De Carvalho

Ernesto De Carvalho

Cinéma du Réel

CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2017: MARTIRIO BY VINCENT CARELLI, ERNESTO DE CARVALHO AND TATIANA ALMEIDA

By Aldo Padilla

The shot opening the film is a recording where Vincent Carrelli struggles to understand the hybrid dialect used by the indigenous people, which is an excellent resource understood as a way of starting a path. Almost at the end, the same shot is repeated, but now with a proper translation, which indicates that through the recording process an evolution has been reached, a connection with the indigenous people which doesn’t feel alien anymore.

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