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Behind the Sun

Abril Despedaçado
2001BrazilLanguage: ptDirected by Walter Salles7.4
Available in English: subtitled

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.

Themes and style

Tone
melancholichauntingbleakwhimsical
Pacing
slow burndreamlikeescalating
Story
survivalrebellionpursuit
Emotion
guiltloyalty under pressureloss of innocencelongingsacrificebelonging
Themes
family wounds passed downfamily dutypovertycaught between worlds
Feel
quietly hauntingcatharticdiscussion starteremotionally wrecking
Violence
moderate

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