Premiere Brazil! 2010 – Brazil Film Festival – Moma NY – Today: Lula, Son of Brazil -

Lula, o filho do Brasil (Lula, Son of Brazil)
2009. Brazil.
Directed by Fabio Barreto. With Gloria Pires, Rui Ricardo Diaz, Cleo Pires.
This emotionally involving, fictionalized biopic about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, widely known as “Lula,” focuses on his poor childhood in the interior of Pernambuco, and especially on the integrity and commitment of his mother, played by the incomparable Pires. Archival newsreel footage cleverly enhances the recounting of Lula’s formative years as a union organizer.
In Portuguese; English subtitles. 130 min.

Thursday, July 29, 2010, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1