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Cinema of Tears
BRAZIL · 1995

Cinema of Tears

Nelson Pereira dos Santos
maternal suicide lost films Brazilian cinema intergenerational mentorship obsessive quest
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Synopsis

An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before she committed suicide.

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