Cast: César Bordón, Rômulo Braga, Jean de Almeida Costa
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7.2/10
100% – Critics
Charcoal Storyline
In São Paulo’s remote countryside, a rural peasant family faces daily struggles. Fate brings them a proposal to host a mysterious stranger in their home, keeping him from the neighbors’ prying eyes. The family home, situated beside a charcoal factory, transforms into a hideout for highly-wanted drug lord. Mother, husband and son struggle to keep up appearances with the neighbors and maintain their daily routine while facing the temptations of their improved finances. Eventually they want out, but how to get out is another matter. Charcoal provides an intimate view of a peasant family’s life turned upside down and inside out in .a very dark comedy of the absurd.—KS at ClassicCoupleAcademy.com
Layers and layers. An apparently simple story, a slow pace that can give a false sense that nothing is happening, and a sinister and always interesting atmosphere.
People who are the result of the society they are inserted in. Dreams go hand in hand with repressed desires. Corruption that takes the form of money but tells us much more about moral corruption, corruption of values that has become so natural that even a 9-year-old child doesn’t blink an eye.
Impressive work by Carolina Markowicz in her directorial debut in a film she also wrote and developed characters in an incredible way. Not always an easy experience, but always worth it.
