Los Angeles Film Festival 2012

Neighboring Sounds

O Som ao Redor

(Brazil, 2012, 124 mins)

Producer: Emilie Lesclaux
Screenwriter: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cinematographers: Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu
Editors: Kleber Mendonça Filho, João Maria
Music: DJ Dolores
Cast: Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, W.J. Solha

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s astonishing debut film focuses on the residents of one street in an upscale neighborhood in the seaside town of Recife, Brazil. There is a hierarchy: up in the high rise lives a powerful patriarch, who calls the shots. Down below is a bored pot smoking housewife, a bad apple who breaks into people's cars to steal their dvd players and a private security team that’s been enlisted to keep an eye on the street. Filho’s stylish panoramic eye takes it all in, so that by the time this suspenseful and edgily funny tale reaches its startling climax, you feel you’ve seen an X-ray of all of Brazilian society.

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