Neighboring Sounds
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 131 mins | 2012
Mendonça Filho’s entrancing debut feature tunes into the anxious frequencies of middle-class residents on a quiet seaside street in sunny Recife, Brazil, where a private security firm has been hired to go on patrol. The community keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop, in Mendonça Filho’s unique exploration of the race and class tensions troubling the country’s soul.
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