New accents: the company reshaping Brazilian film by showing ‘ordinary’ life
Filmes de Plástico has filled cinemas and won acclaim by focusing on Black characters living in poor urban areas
After arriving late several times at work, a librarian is dismissed from his school. The HR employee tasked with presenting the bad news offers him a lift, their conversation deepens and by the end of the night they discover they have a lot in common – including a shared history of mental health treatment – and end up falling in love.
In The Day I Met You, the scenarios, the characters’ professions and the actors playing the protagonists – Renato Novaes and Grace Passô – challenge the conventions of Brazilian romantic films: two Black actors in their 40s defying the genre’s usual slender body standards.
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