Pictures of Ghosts

Pictures of Ghosts

Kleber Mendonça Filho / 2023 / 93 min. / Brazil

From acclaimed director Kleber Mendonça Filho (THE SECRET AGENT), PICTURES OF GHOSTS is a layered journey through time, sound, architecture, and cinema, set against the backdrop of Recife, the coastal capital of Pernambuco. The film explores this historical and human landscape through the city’s great movie theaters—once vibrant spaces of community and imagination throughout the 20th century. These venues, which carried both dreams and progress, also reflected profound transformations in social life. Blending archival documentary, mystery, film excerpts, and personal recollections, PICTURES OF GHOSTS becomes both a cinematic map of a city and a meditation on how film itself shapes our sense of place and memory.

 

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  • "Critic's Pick! An exhilarating documentary... A cleareyed, deeply personal and formally inspired rumination on life, death, family, movies and those complicated, invariably haunted places we call home."

    — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
  • “Triumphant! As with Godard and Paris, Fellini and Rome, Scorsese and New York, Mendonca Filho is a filmmaker whose craft is deeply intertwined with his love of a city. What a beautiful thing.”

    — Rafaela Sales Ross, Playlist
  • "PICTURES OF GHOSTS is so lovely and alive that, if anything, it only reassures you that movies aren’t going anywhere."

    — Alison Willmore, Vulture
  • "A lovely, enveloping film."

    — Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
  • “A heartfelt love letter to filmmaking and film watching the world over.”

    — Lee Marshall, Screen
  • “A celebration… full of hope and wonder. An urgent, moving piece of preservation.”

    — Guiherme Jacobs, IndieWire
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