She Comes Back on Thursday

She Comes Back on Thursday (2016)

Drama

With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday life. More precisely, the life of Maria José and Norberto, who have been married for 35 years and who live in Contagem, in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte. Their marriage is on the rocks, which leads their two sons to also wonder about the future of their own relationships with their wives. The story is quite ordinary. How can one capture such an impercep- tible shift in the heart of the banality of things, only made more noticeable by a crisis? Filming his own family, his own parents, his brother and himself, André Novais Oliveira has chosen to take his time. He shots long sequences, leaving enough time for the fictional situations on which he puts his characters to grow and unfold. Then he uses wide frames to linger on more mundane, concrete or at times farcical moments: eating an orange, cooking, watching television...

Director: André Novais Oliveira

Casts

	Maria José Novais Oliveira as Maria José
	Norberto Novais Oliveira as Norberto
	André Novais Oliveira as André
	Renato Novaes as Renato
	Elida Silpe as Élida
	Carla Patrícia as Carla
	Tatiana Dal Magro as Tati
	Dircinha Macêdo as Dona da geladeira
	Robert Frank as Robert
	Thiago Cesário as Cesarino
	Anivalda Lima as Dona Anivalda
	Lederson Nascimento as Lederson
	Bárbara Maia as Bárbara
	Lois Martins as Bruna
	Cléida de Novais as Cléida
	Thiago Felipe de Souza as Gustavo

Crew