Brazilian Films with Jorge Furtado

2 FILMS and DISCUSSION with director JORGE FURTADO
Rummikab (Brazil, 2007, video, color, 12 min.)
Two Summers  (Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões)  (Brazil, 2002, 35 mm, color, 75 min.)
Discussion with film director Jorge Furtado follows screening

EM PORTUGUES – Both film in Portuguese with English subtitles

WHEN:  March 8, Saturday, 7 pm

WHERE:  Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge, Mass.

COST:  $10

INFO:  www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa

FILM DESCRIPTIONS, from HFA Web site:
Rummikub
with Alicia Braga
Two feuding families battle it out through endless games of Rummikub.
Meanwhile, a pair of lovers forms, à la Romeo and Juliet. Furtado's most recent short stars Alicia Braga, from City of God, who is currently acting in American films, including David Mamet's new Redbelt.

Two Summers (Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões)
with André Arteche, Ana Maria Mainieri
Two Summers starts like a typical teen comedy, with two horny adolescent males plotting, somewhat awkwardly, to meet girls while at the beach on vacation.
One of the two friends, Chico, actually manages to lose his virginity to a somewhat older young woman who then disappears. When she resurfaces, Chico is suddenly faced with the consequences of his fling.
From a simple story, Furtado crafts an absorbing drama on sexual ethics, gender and class in contemporary Brazil.