Aperana Street 52 backdrop
Aperana Street 52 poster
Trailer
Aperana Street 52
5.2
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1h 20m
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2012
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Released
Overview
In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,

Cast
Joel Barcellos poster
Joel Barcellos
Self
Fernando Eiras poster
Fernando Eiras
Self
Giulia Gam poster
Giulia Gam
Self
Drica Moraes poster
Drica Moraes
Self
Caetano Veloso poster
Caetano Veloso
Self
Chico Buarque poster
Chico Buarque
Self
Selton Mello poster
Selton Mello
Self
Alessandra Negrini poster
Alessandra Negrini
Self
Gilberto Gil poster
Gilberto Gil
Self

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