Aperana Street 52
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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,
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Cast
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Joel Barcellos
Self
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Rio Babilonia
Fernando Eiras
Self
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Hidden Truths
Xica da Silva
Rodrigo Lima
Júlio Bressane
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Naive Cinema
Giulia Gam
Self
Known for
Federal Bank Heist
Chico Xavier
Guilherme Vaz
Drica Moraes
Self
Known for
Hidden Truths
Xica da Silva
David Pacheco
Caetano Veloso
Self
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Maria Gladys
Livio Trachtenberg
Chico Buarque
Self
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Ed Mort
Júlio Bressane Director · Guilherme Magalhães Vaz Composer Lívio Tragtenberg Composer
First release January 20, 2012 · Produced in Brazil · Original title Rua Aperana, 52
Production
TB Produções
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Brazil
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Original title
Rua Aperana, 52
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Brazil · January 20, 2012
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
April 17, 2013 · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Denmark
April 11, 2013 · CPH: PIX
Italy
January 15, 2022 · TV · Rai3, Fuori Orario
Netherlands
January 29, 2012 · International Film Festival Rotterdam premiere
Portugal
April 1, 2012 · IndieLisboa
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