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"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)

Gustavo Jahn and Irma Brown in Neighboring Sounds

Cast: Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, W.J. Solha, Irma Brown, Lula Terra, Yuri Holanda, Clébia Souza, Albert Tenório, Nivaldo Nascimento, Felipe Bandeira, Clara Pinheiro de Oliveira. Screenplay: Kleber Mendonça Filho. Cinematography: Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu. Production design: Juliano Dornelles. Film editing: João Maria, Kleber Mendonça Filho. Music: DJ Dolores. 

Oblique, elliptical, subtly unsettling, Kleber Mendonça Filho's debut fictional feature film Neighboring Sounds is a glimpse into the private lives of some middle-class residents of a condominium complex. It gradually exposes their secrets in ways that will frustrate viewers expecting conventionally dramatic revelations. But then, how much do you really know about your neighbors?    

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