. ah! How nostalgic, the Boa Viagem Hotel, I am sure there must be hundreds of master's and doctoral projects with that object of anthropological study; DW Deutsche Welle, the BBC, have been doing this type of life story work for decades. "Over time I have learned how time changes places" wow, what a deep script Gosh. All places have history, and everywhere you go, there are legends about the place, if it is very old or has changed too much, the work then moves on from the life story (which I could well have rated as 2, 5 stars) to the Blair Witch project looking for ghosts in buildings?; No, seriously? A ghost for photography with a sweeping effect? Any photo student knows that all you need is a tripod or stable backrest for the camera and you have to slow down the shutter speed, increasing the exposure time to 3 or 5, or 10 seconds on a manual camera, and voila, a presence says the director hahaha and everything that happens through the focal angle will be blurry, oh, a ghost. So, let's add: an ancient or old place + the sayings and legends of the site, the right hemisphere of the relatives (of Maeve and the girls) + the genius of the visual chronicler Mendonça Filho to capture the paranormal of Setúbal and rethink whether to go to a spiritualist center, wow! I seriously don't believe it, that a work like this, so university in its organic incongruity, as if it had no script, so weak in its script and motive if there is any, and so heteroclite in its visual construction (VHS videos, Beta , super8, 35mm, etc). Although the ideas of the film are not at all original, they engage the uncritical mass of the audience from the right hemisphere, that of self-complacency, imagination, morbidity and curiosity, (after all it works with before and after, memory, nostalgia) but Mendonca Filho is so mediocre, he captivates himself with this work that he considers an avant-garde entelechy, he becomes enthralled and falls in love with his work - like narcissu- that it is also endorsed with awards by Cannes and another group of crazy people who try found the "habitus" to which Pierre Bordieu referred, and which imagine that they propose a peculiar and intelligent work but only invent warm water by allowing their alchemist at their festivals, who in reality is just a reporter collecting photos and videos relatives.
Review of Pictures of Ghosts
