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Manas 2024

[Venice '24] Replacing the documentary genre with fiction, Brazilian director Marianna Brennand has the support of Walter Salles and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne as associate producers in her debut, which is already a statement about the cinema that has had the most influence on her film. Sexual abuse is not addressed explicitly in the story and is not even referred to verbally, but it is always hovering in the air. In a secondary but very moving layer, the mother becomes a tragic figure that represents the paradox of a forest area that is subject to deforestation and abandonment just as the feminine is subject to abuse and violence.

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