Critical Fortune - Luiz Fernando Carvalho

3, Aug — 2003

Les pieds dans la terre

  • Jean-Phillipe Tessé
  • Cahiers du Cinéma

“Il y a la promesse fondatrice d’un renouveau, d’une palpitation inédite dans le cinéma brésilien depuis Glauber Rocha. (…) Sur le coup  ne restent que des bribes arrachées à un magma visuel et quelques éclats tranchants. Mais bientôt le chaos s’organise, la matière prend forme et le film se donne dans toute sa longueur et sa richesse comme un poème barbare au bard de l’hallucination, d’une puissance inouïe. (…) Jamais pourtant ce retour aux mythes fondateurs ne recouvre ni ne prend de vitesse la primauté des sensations. Si le film possède une telle force incantatoire, c’est que Carvalho sait que tout commence là, dans cette manière première de naître au monde, de se laisser ravir par lui, d’en goûter chaque repli.”

12, Nov — 2001

New masterpiece of the national movie industry

  • Carlos Alberto de Mattos
  • Jornal do Brasil

“No minced words, it is never enough to say Lavoura Arcaica is a masterpiece”.

13, Oct — 2001

Word and poison

  • Léonard Mouti Alabdou
  • Bravo

“The two majestic heroes of the movie are light and shadow, a perfect dialogue between bright and dark, paying tribute to a splendid Brazilian cinema and to a magnificent Brazilian Literature.”

9, Nov — 2001

Luiz Fernando Carvalho forges a masterpiece

  • Mario Sergio Conti
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“Luiz Fernando Carvalho made a movie that mesmerizes the eyes and fights against conformism. He is a director with something to say and the courage to take risks. Lavoura Arcaica is a masterpiece.”

24, Oct — 2001

First epic after Embrafilme

  • Rodrigo Fonseca
  • Jornal do Brasil

“The first major epic in the retaking of the Brazilian cinema.”

7, Mar — 2002

Big films

  • Luiz Fernando Verissimo
  • O Globo

“Lavoura Arcaica is an extraordinary work. Much better than I expected, even considering I am already fan of Carvalho.”

8, Nov — 2001

The oily salvia of this verb

  • Eugenio Bucci
  • Jornal do Brasil

“The deed of Luiz Fernando Carvalho is indeed remarkable. From a book made of pure fibrous language he managed to take from it a grammar of imagery and speech with an analogous aesthetic effect.”

25, Nov — 2001

Convulsions

  • Daniel Piza
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“This is what remains when it comes to a masterpiece.”

15, Nov — 2001

Feature film is an exemplary exception in the Brazilian movie industry

  • Inácio Araújo
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“Luiz Fernando Carvalho spared no efforts. He shoots with all his soul.”

13, Oct — 2016

“The first masterpiece of the Brazilian movie industry in the 21st century.”

  • Carlos Alberto de Mattos
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“The harmony between interpretations, photography and music – broken only, as I see it, in the hyperbolic scene of the chapel and, in a lesser degree, in the parable of the hungry – carves the name of Luiz Fernando Carvalho among the greatest creators of the contemporary audiovisual segment. No minced words, it is never enough to say Lavoura Arcaica is a masterpiece”.

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24, Oct — 2001

A good transgenic

  • Isabela Boscov
  • Veja

“Let no one wait three hours of entertainment. Whoever seeks a radical experience, however, already knows where to find it.”

1, Dec — 2005

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  • Bravo

“It deals with cinematographic poetry that makes justice to the romance of Raduan Nassar, which was once considered unshootable.”

1, Dec — 2001

From the herd of my father

  • Renato Bittencourt Gomes
  • Rascunho

“We must celebrate and rejoice, newspapers and our chats after leaving the screening room are all discussing aesthetic choices.”

23, Oct — 2001

Literary grandeur at the service of the good cinema

  • Arnaldo Carrilho
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

Lavoura Arcaica came with devotion to recover the transcendence in our big screens.”

30, Apr — 2001

Lavoura hits the jackpot in literary adaptation

  • José Geraldo Couto
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“Victory for cinema and poetry.”

26, Oct — 2001

A crib pain

  • Rodrigo Fonseca
  • Jornal do Brasil

“A movie too difficult to forget.”

14, Nov — 2001

Lavoura and the signs of a masterpiece

  • Marcelo Coelho
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“Audience applauded in the end, as if they had heard a symphony from Mahler.”

26, Oct — 2001

Poetry of a family tragedy

  • Carlos Alberto de Mattos
  • Jornal do Brasil

“Carves the name of Luiz Fernando Carvalho among the greatest creators of the contemporary audiovisual segment.”

26, Oct — 2001

Lavoura of wishes

  • Joel Birman
  • Jornal do Brasil

“Undoubtedly one of the best movies of the Brazilian cinematography.”

26, Oct — 2001

Spectacular production

  • Alexandre Werneck
  • Jornal do Brasil

“A scene from Lavoura Arcaica is destined to become history in the Brazilian cinema. It is the one of the reckoning between the father, Raul Cortez, and the prodigal son, Selton Mello.”

26, Oct — 2001

A splendid harvest

  • Luciano Trigo
  • O Globo

“Memorable from the first to the last frame.”

28, Oct — 2001

A filmmaker is about to join the poets’ club

  • Hugo Sukman
  • O Globo

“Luiz Fernando Carvalho will soon be part of a club already joined by Walter Lima Jr, Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Paulo César Saraceni and whoever manages to enlarge the limits of life when it is narrated by a movie theater.”

26, Oct — 2001

The several faces of love

  • Shirley Paradizo
  • Veja

“A true masterpiece.”