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BRAZIL · 2008
Romance
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Synopsis
During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Pedro and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.
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Her 1999 film Romance was a particularly important one for Scafaria: 'The women in her films are so deeply complex and messy and sexual and often, like, unlikable on the surface, but still very relatable and empathetic. It’s what I try to do, I think, in all of my films: to find the empathy in the unlikable.'
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