Critical Fortune - Luiz Fernando Carvalho

15, Nov — 2015

The Intensity and Supremacy of Form in Suburbia

  • Luiz Eduardo Soares
  • Segundo Caderno / O Globo

“Luiz Fernando Carvalho has made remarkable works in the movies and TV, with widely recognized aesthetic boldness. The commitment with form is now exercised in the Suburbia series, showcasing Rio’s society in a different light and attainting an exceptional result.”

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3, Jan — 2014

Suburbia Underlines Aesthetic Boldness

  • Ubiratan Brasi
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“Director Luiz Fernando Carvalho is a true sociologist of television drama – after analyzing the caste system during the Empire’s period in The Maias and decoding Ariano Suassuna’s labyrinthine and magical universe in Pedra do Reino, Carvalho revealed the likewise colorful and dark atmosphere of Rio’s North Zone in Suburbia”

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1, Nov — 2012

Suburbia is Poetic and Realistic.

  • Patricia Kogut
  • Segundo Caderno / O Globo

“The series is lyrical, and shares the regard of a photographer/poet. There are no light effects, rather the director’s vision, which sees and offers a color that would escape the mere documentary filmmaker. It holds a plenty of messages for the TV itself ”

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1, Nov — 2012

Series Keeps it Real and Tender while Looking at the Hard Suburban Life

  • Mauricio Stycer
  • UOL

“The result is beautiful and moving. Like other works by Carvalho, however, it demands special attention from viewers who grew used to very plain dialogs and simple close-ups.”

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3, Dec — 2012

Fresh, Natural, No Posing: the World of Suburbia

  • Patricia Kogut
  • Segundo Caderno / O Globo

“Suburbia is not just a good TV show, it also prompts a rather timely discussion about the television itself”

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28, Oct — 2012

Three Suburbs

  • Mauricio Stycer
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“I venture to say that Madureira play a role of equal to higher relevance than that of characters in the show conceived and directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho and his peculiar keen eye.”

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8, Nov — 2012

Black is beautiful

  • Luiz Carlos Merten
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“Carvalho’s Suburbia, like Sam Mendes’s, portrays moral violence”

2, Nov — 2012

Review – Suburbia, First Episode

  • Fernanda Furquim
  • Veja

Judging by the first episode, the rest of the mini-series might as well be worth it. Not so much for the story, but for the images and fleeting poetry that the production promises to offer.

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29, Dec — 2012

The Fine Dish Served by TV in 2012

  • Patricia Kogut
  • Segundo Caderno / O Globo

“Another highlight was Suburbia, by Luiz Fernando Carvalho and Paulo Lins. The series’ brought a fresh feel to television, departing (and exposing) from trivial and repetitive models.”

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4, Nov — 2012

“You da killer of yourself”

  • Tatiana Tiburcio
  • Negro Olhar

Suburbia offers a fresh look at many received truths. (…) It has hit the ground running in its first chapter, with a handful of ethnic, social and cultural issues that are relevant for each and every citizen, but especially for the Brazilian black people when it comes to the possibility of changing some confining stereotypes.”

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