Critical Fortune - Luiz Fernando Carvalho

7, Jul — 1996

O Rei do Gado swallows the national cinema

  • Fernando de Barros e Silva
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“Perhaps because it is free from any commitment to the past, having no judgment other than the audience, television drama begins to create a soap opera such as O Rei do Gado, whose unexpected results eventually occupy this kind of vacuum created by the mirage of national cinema.”

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11, Jul — 1996

Exciting

  • Luis Fernando Verissimo
  • Jornal do Brasil

“Has anyone in the world ever made television like that, like in those early chapters? (…) Luiz Fernando Carvalho, with his moving cameras and his care for dramatic space, is doing with the soap opera what directors such as John Ford, William Wyler and later David Lean did with epic cinema. ”

19, Jun — 1996

New rural transvestite plot in miniseries

  • Marcos Barros Pinto
  • Jornal do Brasil

“It was a flawless first chapter.”

25, May — 1996

Work of art in prime time

  • Gabriel Priolli
  • Jornal da Tarde

“An indelible mark that only great works can.”

6, Jul — 1996

The Simplicity of O Rei do Gado

  • Eugenio Bucci
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“O Rei do Gado began with strength, beauty and emotion.”

16, Jun — 1996

The aesthetics of cinema in video

  • O Globo

“He plays movies on TV. The viewer will notice this peculiar touch as soon as the plot enters the air. ”

7, Sep — 1996

O Rei do Gado pleases at premiere

  • Julio Gama
  • O Globo

“As attuned as the author and director were the actors. Untouchable”.

18, May — 1996

O Rei do Gado starts well

  • Cristina Padiglione
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“The partnership between Luiz Fernando Carvalho and Benedito Ruy Barbosa is excellent.”

19, Jun — 1996

O Rei do Gado is the Quatrilho on TV

  • Esther Hamburger
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“O Rei do Gado debuted once again combining Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s cinematic finesse with Benedito Ruy Barbosa’s melodramatic whim.”

5, Feb — 1996

Epic, starts well despite opening

  • Rogerio Durst
  • O Globo

“The narrative features used by the direction guarantee the typical epic-operatic-mythic tone of Benedito’s novels.”

22, Jun — 1996

A beautiful soap opera

  • Paulo Ricardo Moreira
  • O Dia

Benedito Ruy Barbosa: “The performances are exquisite, beyond my expectations.”