Vivi
Los vecinos del pueblo de Contagem, cerca de Belo Horizonte, sueñan con tener una vida mejor. Puede que los de mayor edad ya se han rendido. Las mujeres están dispuestas a trabajar de manera honrada, pero los hombres suelen ser vagos que tratan de llegar a lo que ellos llaman "El corazón del mundo" a través de acciones criminales. Este documental sigue la vida de sus vecinos y de sus quehaceres diarios.
With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday life. More precisely, the life of Maria José and Norberto, who have been married for 35 years and who live in Contagem, in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte. Their marriage is on the rocks, which leads their two sons to also wonder about the future of their own relationships with their wives. The story is quite ordinary. How can one capture such an impercep- tible shift in the heart of the banality of things, only made more noticeable by a crisis? Filming his own family, his own parents, his brother and himself, André Novais Oliveira has chosen to take his time. He shots long sequences, leaving enough time for the fictional situations on which he puts his characters to grow and unfold. Then he uses wide frames to linger on more mundane, concrete or at times farcical moments: eating an orange, cooking, watching television...
