Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
Género : Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 41M
Director : Sérgio Bianchi
Sinopsis
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
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