Rend Your Heart
What are we going to leave for our children?
Synopsis
Rend Your Heart is an adaptation of the homonymous play (1972) by Oduvaldo Viana Filho, which tells the story of Manguari Pistolão [Big Pistol], an anonymous militant who, after forty years of struggle for what he considers to be new and revolutionary, sees his son Luca accuse him of being conservative, old-fashioned, anachronistic. Unable to make ends meet, suffering from the pains of chronic arthritis, and in a growing conflict with Luca, Big Pistol reviews his past, and finds himself repeating the same attitudes as his father. Integrating fragments from various moments of Big Pistol’s life, the film casts light on forty years of Brazilian political life, showing the recurrent conflict between the perceptions of what is truly new.
Format
Films
115'
Year
2018
Director
Jorge Furtado
Author
Jorge Furtado, Ana Luiza Azevedo and Vicente Moreno
Produced by
Globo Filmes, Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre and Canal Brasil
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