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Reviews
Noite Vazia (1964)
alienation and boredom in the big city
Walter Hugo Khouri was in the beginning influenced by Bergman (as you can notice in "O Estranho Encontro" and then by Antonioni, as in "Noite Vazia". This film has reminded me "L'Eclisse", but the city portrayed is São Paulo not Milan.
Blow-Up (1966)
Blow up your mind
This film is a feast for the eyes. It is at the same time pop (in the meaning of pop art, colourful, extravagant) and philosophical. The simple story of a photographer that by accident after blowing up some photographs he's taken at a park, discovers there's a body lying under a bush. A crime has been committed. He tries to unravel this crime and his search, in truth, is a search for himself. The film was made in the swinging London of the sixties. It's like a wonderful time travel for us viewers.
He's a successful photographer, but is there any meaning in his life? In society? This film explores his loneliness and the loneliness of us all. Glitter, silence, solitude. There are no answers. But it is not a sad film, because it lead us to deeper thinking about ourselves and the world. And when we reflect about it and share this experience with others we are not alone anymore.