Júlia Murat : 2011
Histórias que só existem quando lembradas
Every morning Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. And every day she crosses the railroads where no trains have passed for years, cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, listens to the priest's sermon and then shares lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the memory of her dead husband and living in her past, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who comes to the village of Jotuomba where time seems to have stopped and people are stuck in their memories and daily routines. With her homemade pinhole camera and boundary-pushing curiosity, Rita slowly endears herself to the village, imbuing it with new life while it subtly claims her own. Stories that only exist when remembered. This beautifully photographed narrative feature by documentary maker Júlia Murat is a melancholy ode to the heydays of Brazil's Paraíba Valley, once a flourishing region that prospered from its coffee plantations, now a derelict area full of empty estates, ghost towns and the stories of its remaining inhabitants.
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