The best Jean-Claude Bernardet’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Jean-Claude Bernardet’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jean-Claude Bernardet.
Super Oldboy
Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.
The Man of the Crowd
6.4/10
Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of complete solitude – each in a particular way. Juvenal refuses to be alone and strolls through the streets of this metropolis taking comfort by mingling with the anonimous crowd. Margo seeks relief in the virtual world of social networks where she struggles to establish long lasting relations with real persons.
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
7.8/10
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Ladrões de Cinema
7.6/10
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira.
Utopia, Distopia
Jorge Bodanzky reaches to his memories of the time he studiet at the University of Brasília to show a look into the 1960s Brazilian youtuh, with its dreams, expectations, crisis and incomplete projects.
Em 97 Era Assim
7.2/10
A 15 year-old boy and his friends want to lose their virginity.
Orgia ou O Homem Que Deu Cria
6.6/10
A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.
Carta Para Além dos Muros
8.3/10
This documentary reports, through interviews with specialists and activists, the chronology of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil, from the beginning of the discovery of the disease to the present day.
Que Viva Glauber!
Bird Boy
Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.
The Prophet of Hunger
7.6/10
The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
#eagoraoque
7/10
An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?
A Cidade dos Piratas
6.9/10
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
Nuvem Negra
Plano B
P.S. - Post Scriptum
Fome
O Cineasta das Platéias
7.9/10
This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show.
Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weaving a bridge between the past and the present.
Die Farben der Vögel
The scientist Udo Gierer is on the trail of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, the famous Amazon researcher at the beginning of our century. While traveling on a river steamboat, he meets and becomes friends with 14 year old José Junior. He takes José with him on a flight over the rain forest and tells the boy about the importance of the Amazon as the lung of the world.
