Aperana Street 52

Synopsis

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,

Main Cast

Joel Barcellos

Self

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Fernando Eiras

Self

Age : 67 | Popularity : 5%

Giulia Gam

Self

Age : 57 | Popularity : 7%

Drica Moraes

Self

Age : 54 | Popularity : 4%

Caetano Veloso

Self

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Chico Buarque

Self

Age : 79 | Popularity : 5%

Selton Mello

Self

Age : 51 | Popularity : 8%

Alessandra Negrini

Self

Age : 53 | Popularity : 6%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Júlio Bressane
Production	Producer	Júlio Bressane
Writing	Writer	Júlio Bressane
Editing	Editor	Rodrigo Lima
Sound	Original Music Composer	Guilherme Magalhães Vaz Lívio Tragtenberg
Crew	Cinematography	David Pacheco
Department	Role	Name

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