Brazilian Film: O Homem Que Copiava

BRAZILIAN FILM: in Portuguese with English subtitles

WITH APPEARANCE by Director JORGE FURTADO

FILM:  The Man Who Copied (O Homem Que Copiava)

WHEN: March 7, Friday, at 7 pm

AT: Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge, Mass.

INFO:    hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008marchapril/furtado.html#man  
              617-495-4700 

 
TICKETS: $10

The Man Who Copied  (O Homem Que Copiava)
director:  Jorge Furtado
starring:  Lázaro Ramos and Leandra Leal
Brazil 2003, 35mm, color, 123 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles

A young man in a dead-end job drifts toward a life of crime.

The storyline could come from any one of a number of Amerindie films, but it doesn't begin to capture this film's inventiveness, its attention to race and class, its irony and its subtle but incisive critique of consumerism.

The plot itself drifts from genre to genre, encompassing Hitchcockian psychodrama, romantic comedy and neonoir. Furtado's deployment of point of view and voiceover betray the formal invention at work beneath the surface.