Cinema
Fulaninha
David Neves · 1986
Synopsis
Bruno, a filmmaker in his forties, solitary and in crisis, secretly falls for a teenage girl he sees passing in the street. He makes her the subject of a screenplay and the object of the reveries he shares at the bar with his friends: a producer of pornographic videos, an unemployed seducer and a lawyer who lives on his private income and dreads having to work. He films her on video, not knowing that the woman he is seeing, a widow tied to a crime boss, is the girl's mother.
Context
With two other films by its director, from 1979 and 1988, it forms a trilogy of chronicles of Rio's south zone. The screenplay is credited to him together with Haroldo Marinho Barbosa, Paulo Thiago and Onésio Paiva, and the second of them produces it with Carlos Moletta. Mariana de Moraes plays the title role, alongside Cláudio Marzo, José de Abreu, Zaira Zambelli, Marcos Palmeira and Nelson Dantas. The date varies according to the sources: a university thesis and the TheTVDB database give 1986, the English-language encyclopaedia 1985.
Who it is for
A comedy of about a hundred minutes, in Portuguese, in which a filmmaker and three friends at a bar comment on the life of a young girl they do not know.
Prizes and reception
It is ranked among the films in which its director gives a lyrical place to female characters.
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