SILVER

All her life, Malu (Yara de Novaes) has marched to the beat of a different drummer. A former actress and political activist, she now dreams of opening a cultural center and community theater in her ramshackle home near the favela. Malu has strained relationships with both her mother, Lili (Juliana Carneiro da Cunha), a religious conservative who never understood her daughter’s different views, and her daughter, Joana (Carol Duarte, LA CHIMERA), also an actress, who loves her mother, despite that she was an unreliable and neglectful parent. Malu is a magnetic yarn-spinner and the life of any party, but her relentless anti-authoritarianism tends to spill over from idealism into anger and arguments. At this point in her life, it may be that Malu is simply living in the past, reminiscing about long-ago romances and fleeting artistic triumphs while losing touch with the reality of her present and ever-dwindling future. Official Selection, 2024 Sundance and New Directors/New Films film festivals. DIR/SCR Pedro Freire; PROD Roberto Berliner. Brazil, 2024, color, 103 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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