The story concerns a young man living at home, André, whose ideas are radically different from those of his farmer father. The father advocates order and restraint, which enhance his own power under the guise of family love. The son seeks freedom and pleasure, exemplified in his passion for his sister Ana. When André moves to a seedy boarding house, his older brother Pedro, is asked by their mother to bring him back. His return, however, will shatter the family’s insular life.
Director: Luiz Fernando Carvalho. AKA To the Left of the Father.
Stars: Selton Mello, Simone Spoladore, Raul Cortez, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Leonardo Medeiros, Ciao Blat, Mônica Nassif, Renata Rizek, Denise Del Vecchio.
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Note: Many thanks to Lucas for sending me a copy of this movie, I downloaded subs from opensubtitles and re-timed them to fit this HD copy.
The film checks in at 170 minutes, which is about 60 minutes too long. Dialogue vacillates between the poetic and affected. With a nod from Pasolini and de Sade, a morbidly dysfunctional family drama plays out like a voyage au bout de la nuit. If you can make it to the last 30 minutes, the cathartic ending relieves the film of its overweening artifice, and too an uncertain extent saves it from its excesses. 2.5