Casa grande
Item
Title / Título (Original)
Casa grande
Director
Release Date / Fecha de estreno
2014
Language / Idioma
Portuguese / portugués
Country / País
Production Company / Compañía de Producción
Migdal Filmes (Brazil)
Description / Descripción
Ambientada en el mundo de la élite social de Río de Janeiro, es la historia de Jean, un adolescente de 17 años que lucha por escapar de sus padres sobreprotectores al tiempo que su adinerada familia entra en bancarrota. (Film Affinity ES)
Coming-of-age as rude awakening: one high school senior’s dawning sexuality is shadowed by the discovery of his upper-class white family’s looming financial ruin. Polished and penetrating, Casa Grande renders a sharp social canvas of contemporary Brazil through the eyes of young Jean (Thales Cavalcanti), who struggles with newfound knowledge of his racial and class privilege as he sweetly courts a mixed-race girl from a lower-ranked school than his, and sows his oats with the family’s nubile cinnamon-skinned maid. Jean’s parents, meanwhile, clutch at straws merely to survive. His father (Brazilian screen staple Marcello Novaes), a failed hedge-fund baron, tries vainly to conceal the true extent of the damage, as his formerly sheltered wife resorts to peddling cosmetics. (Cinema Slate)
Category / Categoría
Cinematic Period / Periodo cinematográfico
Collection
Citation
“Casa grande,” Cinegogía, accessed April 25, 2024, https://cinegogia.omeka.net/items/show/769.