Electrodomestica
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 23 mins | 2005
Afternoon in a middle-class apartment in Recife: the laundry goes round and round in the machine much as a roast chicken does in the microwave. Appliances augment drudgery and relaxation alike in this humorous domestic symphony, which builds to a subversively reverberant climax.
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