Luís Alberto de Abreu

Filmes

Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia
Writer
O filme transcorre por três dias da última internação hospitalar de Lima Barreto, passados no manicômio D. Pedro II, no ano de 1919, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, motivada por uma forte crise de alucinação, em que se encontram o velho Lima Barreto, a versão mais jovem do escritor e o protagonista de sua obra-prima, "O Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma".
O Amante de Júlia
Writer
Após um acidente que faz Cassio perder a mobilidade, seu relacionamento com Júlia passa por dificuldades. Sentido-se rejeitada, ela começa um novo romance.
Era o Hotel Cambridge
Co-Writer
Refugiados recém-chegados ao Brasil dividem com um grupo de sem-tetos um edifício abandonado no centro de São Paulo. A tensão diária causada pela ameaça iminente de despejo revela os dramas, as alegrias e os diferentes pontos de vista dos residentes.
Alexandre e Outros Heróis
Adaptation
Inspired by an novel by Graciliano Ramos, Alexandre e Outros Heróis is a beautiful way to celebrate his 60th year of death. The story of a man, his life and his death in the Brazil's backwoods.
Narradores de Javé
Screenplay
A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.
Kenoma
Writer
In the village of Kenoma, inside Brazil, the artisan Linnaeus tries to make a big and quixotic dream: to build a perpetual motion machine. His contract is opposed by Jerome, powerful local landowner, but he wins the aid of mysterious drifter who decides to stay in town after charmed with the beauty of the young Tari.