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PEARL

PÉROLA

By Murilo BENÍCIO

Drama - Post-Production 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
- Director(s)
- Murilo BENÍCIO
- Writer(s)
- Murilo BENÍCIO, Adiana FALCÃO, Marcelo SABACK, Jô ABDU
- Cast
- Drica MORAES, Léo FERNANDES, Rodolfo VAZ, Cláudia MISSURA, Louise CARDOSO, Valentina BANDEIRA, Marianna ARMELLINI, Lavínia PANNUNZIO, Gilray COUTINHO, Gustavo MACHADO, Gustavo DUQUE, Jefferson SCHROEDER
- Synopsis
- Murilo Benício’s second feature film, a comedy-drama based on one of the greatest hits of Brazilian theatre, tells the story of matriarch Pérola through the eyes and memories of her son Mauro. Soon after learning about his mother’s death, Mauro returns to his old family home in Bauru (São Paulo, Brazil), in a journey through thefamily’s past. A look back into his mother’s peculiar habits, her illusions, sense of humour, spirituality, desire to control all things… with the love and tenderness which only distance and time allows for. A story about the reunion between mother and son, with conflicts, kitchen conversations and dreams of a better life converted in the construction of a swimming pool in their backyard. A portrait of an ordinary family, who fights, makes up, celebrates, cries an dcarries on full of stories just like any other