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Bookmark this pageThrough the Window (2000)
Director: Tatá Amaral
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From Time Out Film Guide
Rai is at once lazy, distant and demanding, but at times also 'inappropriately' affectionate. Meanwhile, the daily routines of his overprotective mother (through whose eyes the story is seen) are recorded by a languorous camera. She dresses carefully, shops casually and muses about who might have moved into the empty apartment over the road. The pace and tension quicken, however, when Rai returns home with a couple of shifty strangers and a seriously injured young man. With no explanation, but observing his increasingly listless and paranoid behaviour, Rai's mother is forced to reconsider her relationship, fearful of the secret he guards from her. A tense and rewarding drama, with a superb performance from Laura Cardoso as the mother.Author: JFu
Cast & crew
Director: Tatá Amaral
Producer: Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane
Cast: Laura Cardoso, Fransérgio Araujo, Ana Lucia Torre, Joao Acaiabe, Antonio Petrin, Jose Rubens Chacha full cast
Duration: 83 mins
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