PARIS SQUARE

LUCIA MURAT

2017, 110’
Gloria is a woman born and raised in Rio de Janeiro who tries to get on with her life despite of the traumas due to an abusive father and a drug-dealing brother. Camila is a young Portuguese psychoanalyst who comes to Brazil for research violence in a therapeutic centre in a poor community. Fear, traumas and obsession blend into a game of pleasure and guilt, madness and sanity, construction and deconstruction of an urban Rio de Janeiro, which permeates the relationship between Camila and Gloria and, above all, their own lives. This relationship is the focus of the film.

about the director LUCIA MURAT

Her first feature film, Que Bom Te Ver Viva, premiered internationally at the Toronto Film Festival. With Doces Poderes, she premiered in 1997 at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, she released Brava Gente Brasileira, which also premiered in Toronto. With Quase Dois Irmãos, she won Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for Fipresci at the Rio Festival 2004, Best Feature Film at Amazonas Film Festival and Best Feature Film at Mar del Plata Festival 2005. At Rio Film Festival 2005, she premiered the documentary Olhar Estrangeiro and, in the 2007 edition of the festival, Maré, Nossa História de Amor, a co-production selected for the Berlin Festival Panorama. In 2010, she filmed the documentary Uma Longa Viagem (A Long Journey), the great winner of Gramado Festival, and, in 2013, she released A Memória que Me Contam, which won Fipresci at the Moscow Festival. In 2015, she premiered the documentary A Nação que Não Esperou Por Deus (The Nation That Didn’t Wait for God) at the festival É Tudo Verdade (It`s All True), and the essay Em Três Atos (In Three Acts) at the Rio Festival.

Filmography
2023] O Mensageiro
[2021] Ana. Sem Título
[2017] Praça Paris
[2015] A Nação que Não Esperou por Deus
[2015] Em Três Atos
[2013] A Memória que Me Contam
[2011] Uma Longa Viagem
[2007] Maré, Nossa História de Amor
[2005] O Olhar Estrangeiro
[2004] Quase Dois Irmãos
[2000] Brava Gente Brasileira
[1996] Doces Poderes
[1991] Oswaldianas
[1988] Que Bom Te Ver Viva
[1978/84] Pequeno Exército Louco


TRAILER  

original title

PRAÇA PARIS

country

Brazil, Portugal, Argentina

ratings

14

screenplay

Lucia Murat, Raphael Montes

cinematography

Guillermo Nieto

editing

Mair Tavares

production designer

Dina Salem Levy

sound

Carlos Alberto Lopes

sound designer

Simone Petrillo

soundtrack

André Abujamra, Marcio Nigro

producer

Felicitas Raffo, Luis Galvão Telles, Lucia Murat

executive producer

Gabriela Amadei, Joana Nin, João Fonseca, Pamela Livia

cast

Grace Passô, Joana de Verona, Alex Brasil, Digão Ribeiro, Babu Santana, Marco Antonio Caponi

distribution

Imovision

contact

elias@imovision.com.br