Running After (2021)
Running After
”A struggling black Brazilian man becomes a football manager for a neighborhood boy.”
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After surprising with the good 'M8: When Death Helps Life', filmmaker Jeferson De moves away from drama and embraces comedy with enthusiasm. In 'Correndo Atrás', the director tells the story, adapted from a book by comedian Hélio de la Peña, of Ventania (Ailton Graça), a middle-aged man who is still looking for his opportunity in life. And it comes when he meets Glanderson (Juan Paiva), a good soccer player who could be the promise of national football - and also of Ventania's life. Very Brazilian, the production succeeds in bringing a light film to the audience to watch on an afternoon to spend time with a story that could certainly be real in any Brazilian periphery. There is also the increase of Jeferson De having taken care to put, mainly, black professionals in front and behind the cameras, making the comedy one of the most diverse of the genre in Brazil. Good, fun, socially relevant. It is, finally, a pleasant surprise.
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Paulo Gale is a black Brazilian man, a typical "day-by-day survivor", always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When finding himself a dead end, he discovers the opportunity to become a football manager by leading some boy from the neighborhood to becoming the new Neymar of international soccer.
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M8
One of the most anticipated and necessary films of 2020, 'M8: When Death Rescues Life' is yet another consistent work from filmmaker Jeferson De ('Bróder'). Here, he takes advantage of the prejudices and abuses of structural racism that takes Brazil by storm to talk about the routine of a black medical student, the only one in his class. Thus, seeing other black people only in the body of employees and in the figure of the bodies explored in anatomy class, he begins to be bothered by the social situation around him. It is a film with some saturations, mainly concerning the amount of topics and themes discussed in just over 80 minutes of duration. In addition, there is a didacticism that initially bothers. However, quickly, Jeferson De shows that this didacticism is still necessary. And, in the end, Jeferson and the very well interpreted protagonist by Juan Paiva ('Malhação: Viva a Diferença') move and make us reflect.
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