“When does an actual life story end and a performance of the same story begin? This is the question driving Eduardo Coutinho’s engrossing ‘Playing.’” – Variety
Directed by Eduardo Coutinho.
Filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho’s Playing is an exhilarating look at performance, storytelling, the lives of women, the line between fiction and documentary, and so much more. After an open call for women over the age of 18 “with interesting stories to tell,” Coutinho filmed a handful of respondents recounting dramatic stories of heartbreak, loss and love. He then asked some of Brazil’s finest actresses recreate the interviews, using the monologues as texts, complicating our responses throughout.
Matizar, VideoFilmes. Producer: Bia Almeida, Raquel Freire Zangrandi. Cinematographer: Jacques Cheuiche. Editor: Jordana Berg. Cast: Marília Pêra, Andrea Beltrão, Fernanda Torres, Aleta Gomes Vieira, Claudiléa Cerqueira de Lemos.
35mm, color, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 100 min.