Jorge Furtado
Country: Brazil
Total Credits at Criticker: 21 (Director), 23 (Writer)
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A story of love, art, robbery and photocopying. In combining magical realism and comedy, director Jorge Furtado creates a new cinematic vision that is propelled by a lively Brazilian soundtrack and a first-class ensemble cast.
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Isle of Flowers (1989) - Short Film
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people. (imdb)
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The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue. (imdb)
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Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation? (imdb)
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The film tells the story of Marcia and Julius, a couple who confront their civilized theories about sex and politics with reality, finding that neither the world nor themselves are still civilized enough. They raise their children in a liberal environment without divorce, living an open relationship. But when Marcia (a successful lawyer) has a relationship with a lover, Julius becomes jealousy and decides to have an affair with a friend of his daughter.
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A small community of descendants of Italian immigrants in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul resorts to making a video to try to solve the problems of basic sanitation that plague their village. (imdb)
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Boy tries to help his uncle, guilty of a murder case, to prove his innocence. He thinks the uncle has confessed the crime as a cover-up for his girlfriend, who was the wife of the dead man. So he starts a private investigation, with the help of his own friends, also involving the girl he loves. (imdb)
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A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer. (imdb)
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Três Minutos (1999) - Short Film
Three minutes. The time to leave a message. To pass the baton and to run 1600 meters. To cook an egg...
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Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last. (imdb)
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A charming 'Lolita' seduces a foreigner and throws him into a case of scandal and homicide. (imdb)
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Ana (Letícia Sabatella) and Pedro (Wagner Moura) healthy two young actors that itself become passionate during the theatrical assembly of Tristão and Isolda. At the same time that recreate the history of this mythic couple that is in the origin of all of the romantic couples, they are going to uncover for itself own a new form of be related. (yahoo)
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O Sanduíche (2000) - Short Film
A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.
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Esta Não é a Sua Vida (1991) - Short Film
Claus lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. Born in a small town, went to capital, he worked in a bakery, married. It is an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.
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Ângelo Anda Sumido (1997) - Short Film
Two old friends reunite and combine dinner together but then again get lost in the maze of fences and railings walls of a large city.
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Temporal (1984) - Short Film
Two very different groups reunite at the same house in the same night...
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Veja Bem (1994) - Short Film
Veja Bem is a movie and also an object, a zootropic. In the first part, the attention is in the muscle-man and the images are repeated by exhaustion surrounded by poetries of João Cabral de Melo Neto. In the second half, the focus is the wonderful and ridiculous caleidoscopic of city's offers. the images are pure diversity and the text is from Carlos Drummond de Andrade. (portacurtas)
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Film in four segments in which four directors comment on the subject of happiness. (imdb)
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João is a teenager from a dysfunctional family who develops behavior issues and is committed to a psych ward, where he meets Judite and soon falls in love with her. She will die soon and they both know it, but meeting each other will change their lives.
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Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town (imdb)
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An adaptation of the namesake play by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, which tells the story of Manguari Pistolão, an anonymous militant, that after 40 years of fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, his son accuses him of being conservative, antiquated, and anachronistic. With no money to pay the monthly bills, suffering chronic arthritis pain, and in a growing conflict with Luca, Manguari recalls his past and sees himself repeating the same attitudes as his father. Staggering fragments
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Doce de Mãe (2012) - TV Movie
The story of Picucha, an 85-year-old suburban widow and mother of four who faces the reality of living alone in her age while keeping good humor and love for family and life.
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