Director
Petra Costa
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Film Details
Format: Short film
An epic tragedy of corruption and betrayal, IMPEACHMENT is a behind-the-scenes look at the ousting of Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff. With privileged access to the president and other key politicians, the film unravels like a political thriller as Brazil falls into disarray, echoing the undoing of so many democracies throughout the world.
Subjects
Politics
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Awards
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Reviews
This works very well as both a primer on the tumultuous last several years of Brazilian politics and also as a very passionate personal essay film.
Costa manages to craft an intimate primer about the state's descent into populism and the fraying of the country's democratic fabric.
[Petra Costa] seems utterly incapable of crafting a frame that is lacking in urgency or vibrance.
An angry, intimate, and haunting portrait of Brazil's recent slide back into the open jaws of dictatorship.
Directed by Petra Costa, this completely fascinating documentary provides an unexpectedly compelling inside look at the political earthquakes that have been roiling Brazil for several years.
It's a chronicle of civic betrayal and the abuse of power, and also of heartbreak.
This is documentary cinema in which facts tangle compellingly with feeling, while passages of solemn, stately mood-building split the difference.
A powerful document of a wave of nationalism sweeping both Europe and the Americas in recent years.
A deeply felt rumination on a troubled political scene.
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