Today, on The Goggler Podcast, Bahir and Uma watch and review Brazilian director Selton Mello’s atmospheric coming-of-age drama, The Movie of My Life.
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of a French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from College he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good. Tony then looks for the company of his father’s friends in search of information and references of a lost male role model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his father whereabouts and reasons for leaving. Based on a novel “A Distant Father” by Antonio Skármeta, who also wrote the book that inspired the Oscar-winning Il Postino.
The Movie of My Life (O Filme Da Minha Vida) was directed by Selton Mello and stars Rolando Boldrin, Vincent Cassel, Selton Mello, Bruna Linzmeyer, Johnny Massaro, and Bia Arantes.
