Posthumous Memories

Posthumous Memories

2001 · 101 min · PT · 6.2 (41 votes)
Dir. André Klotzel · Starring Reginaldo Faria, Petrônio Gontijo, Viétia Zangrandi, Sonia Braga, Otávio Müller, Marcos Caruso
DramaComedy

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.

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A wry, detached observer dissects his own life and the society he inhabited. It's a conversation with a ghost, full of sharp observations and a melancholic, yet amused, perspective on human folly.

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