The child imprisoned in history: crystalline community building in O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (Brazil, 2006)
In the 2000s a transnational trend emerged across several Latin American cinemas, for films exploring national pasts under military rule through a child protagonist. Several such films were set in the 1970s, including four from the Southern Cone: Kamchatka (Argentina/Spain/Italy, 2002), Machuca (Chi...
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British Film Institute
2022
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/94149/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/child-in-cinema-9781844575138/ |
| Summary: | In the 2000s a transnational trend emerged across several Latin American cinemas, for films exploring national pasts under military rule through a child protagonist. Several such films were set in the 1970s, including four from the Southern Cone: Kamchatka (Argentina/Spain/Italy, 2002), Machuca (Chile/Spain/UK/France, 2004), O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias/The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil, 2006), and Paisito (Uruguay/Spain/Argentina, 2008). This chapter focuses on O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, which situates its child protagonist, Mauro, (Michel Joelsas) in a cinematically reconstructed 1970. |
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