Lillah Halla’s debut film is a battered but unbowed fuck-you to the fascist tide that has swept across Brazil over the past decade. Here, she talks about why this film is a “response to political times”
doesn’t wish to speak – let’s just call him ‘JB’ – who would prefer that her film had never been made. In fact he very nearly had his way, when funding was frozen for the Brazilian director’s feature debut in 2016, one of many to fall prey to politically motivated cuts to the country’s beleaguered film industry., a battered but unbowed fuck-you to the fascist tide that has swept across Brazil over the past decade.
Narrowly avoiding abduction after a trip to a fake abortion clinic, Sofia confides in her friends who together take a stand for their teammate’s freedom to choose. Because it was a lot of work to make a film in [Jair] Bolsonaro’s Brazil, let alone a film about this. LH: They’re a very tight group now. For me, it was very important to create this bond outside the film as well as inside, and this doesn’t happen by chance; it took us a long time to find the group. Once we got together there were many different things that helped this chemistry – for example, for the first weeks of rehearsal they didn’t have a [proper] script, I brought it back to a [basic] treatment so we could bring their voices into the story.
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