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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies / Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema Series: 1968: An International Perspective [April 29-May 14] Director: Júlio Bressane, Country: Brazil, Release: 1969, Runtime: 64 “Wildly anti-authoritarian!” - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice "An audacious picture! "- Elliott Stein, The Village Voice In the dark days of December 1968, Brazil's military government decreed the Fifth Institutional Act, a law that effectively suspended all civil liberties. A movement emerged among young filmmakers, variously called "underground"� or "marginal" cinema, which confronted the strict censorship of the dictatorship by creating works wildly anarchic in form and subject--works that flirted at times with incoherence. One of the first and most influential of these films, Killed the Family and Went to the Movies, was made by a 23-year-old Júlio Bressane. A 30-year-old man performs the titular acts. At the cinema, he sees a film called Lost in Love about two women drifting into a lesbian relationship. Sometimes the man projects himself into the movie. Other times the scene changes to a torture chamber, where the man is being interrogated. Outrageous and consistently inventive, Killed the Family combines shards of stories that together offer an unsettling portrait of a country living in fear and aching for release. Print courtesy of Júlio Bressane.

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