Many filmmakers adapt books, but relatively few make movies that actually feel like books—that is, they achieve the sort of patience and interiority that come with reading. Judging from their second ...

The working-class hero of Araby isn’t a winner. He’s so normal we don’t even know he’s the lead until the twenty-minute mark. His name is Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), and the first time we see him ...

Brazilian fable premiered in Rotterdam. Grasshopper Film has picked up US rights from Katásia Films to Araby, the Brazilian feature by Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans. The Rotterdam premiere and ...

Rare is the Brazilian film that receives any notable U.S. release; all the more rare is a Brazilian road movie that’s accrued quite a bit of good word in advance of said release. But João Dumans & ...

“I’m like everyone else,” writes about himself Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), the working class hero at the center of Affonso Uchoa and João Dumans’ Araby, “It’s just my life that was a little bit ...

A migrant worker’s journal opens up a world for a disaffected teenager, and us, in “Araby,” a beautifully turned Brazilian movie that carries on as if a social-cause documentary and a folk song ...

Brazilian fable premiered in Rotterdam. Grasshopper Film has picked up US rights from Katásia Films to Araby, the Brazilian feature by Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans. The Rotterdam premiere and ...