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Bookmark this pageThe Magic Hour (1998)
Director: Guilherme de Almeida Prado
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From Time Out Film Guide
Similar in mood, tone and design to the same director's Lady from the Shanghai Cinema, this charts the love of Tito, a movie dubbing actor, for the mysterious Lucia amid the radio soap studios (he's the villain of 'The Murderer Is Amongst Us'), apartment corridors and bars of '30s Rio. It's an easily enjoyable, occasionally thought provoking, sometimes bemusing criss-cross of fantasy, parody, melodrama and reconstruction, filled with affectionate or ironic period references.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Guilherme de Almeida Prado
Producer: Sara Silvera
Cast: Julia Lemmertz, Raul Gazolla, Maitê Proença, José Lewgoy, Tânia Alves, Walter Breda, John Herbert, David Cardoso full cast
Duration: 101 mins
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