Wednesday September 17, 2008
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION (Rated PG)
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION (Rated PG)
Provided by Gullane Films for UNCW's LATIN AMERICAN, LATINO AND CARIBBEAN FILM FESTIVAL
Sponsored by Brazuka Brazilian Club, Anthropology Department, Office of International Programs, and Centro Hispano
A young boy is thrust into the alien environment of São Paulo's Jewish community when his politicized parents are forced to flee Brazil. For Mauro (Michel Joelsas), 1970 is the year when he wants nothing more than for Brazil to win the World Cup in soccer. But his country is being strangled by its brutal government, and it's also the year his parents tensely leave him at his grandfather's house on the outskirts of the city. Unbeknownst to the fleeing pair, grandpa has had a heart attack just hours before Mauro knocks on his door. Whisked to the funeral by people he doesn't know, who speak a language he doesn't speak -Yiddish- Mauro is reluctantly taken under the wing of his grandfather's next door neighbor Shlomo (the dignified Germano Haiut). Though nonplussed to find that Mauro isn't circumcised (his mother is a Gentile), the community amiably adopts the boy while Shlomo courageously tries to find out why his parents are not calling. This sensitive, involving drama tells the moving story of an innocent caught up in a ferociously repressive dictatorship he knows nothing about (adapted from Deborah Young, Tribeca Film Festival).
O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias (2006) Brazil; Director Cao Hamburger;104 minutes; DVD; Drama. English subtitles.
Lumina Theater. 7 p.m. FREE.
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