Pictures of Ghosts

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Pictures of Ghosts

2024

1h 33m

Documentary

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Downtown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.

Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

02/20/2024

Armed with abundant archival material... also supported by dramatizations and scripted scenes, Kleber Mendonça Filho recovers essential moments from his artistic training and the development of his craft in Pictures of Ghosts. [Full review in Spanish]

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Dmitry Samarov

Chicago Reader

01/26/2024

It’s like celestial time travel while rarely leaving one’s childhood block.

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

01/26/2024

3.5/4

A lovely, enveloping film.

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

Feb 23

4/5

A film that is beautiful, sad, and deeply moving all at once. [Full review in Spanish]

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Anna Hoang

Boston Hassle

07/14/2025

4/5

PICTURES OF GHOSTS is the kind of biodoc that everyone has playing in their heads, wishing that it could come to fruition for others to watch.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

04/01/2025

One gets the impression Filho could not have turned out anything but a filmmaker, given the endless amounts of footage he has shot over the course of his life, whether he was officially in production on a feature or not.

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Synopsis

Downtown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Producer: Emilie Lesclaux
Screenwriter: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Production Co: Ancine - Agência Nacional do Cinema, Vitrine Filmes, CinemaScópio Produções
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 2, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 33m