SummarySet in the turbulent year of 1970, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is a poignant and humorous coming-of-age story. Mauro is a 12-year-old boy thrust into a maelstrom of political and personal upheaval. When his left-wing militant parents are forced to go underground, Mauro is left in the care of his Jewish grandfather's neighbor in Sao Paulo... Read More
Directed By:Cao Hamburger
Written By:Adriana Falcão, Claudio Galperin, Cao Hamburger, Bráulio Mantovani, Anna Muylaert
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
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Most political films involving children are vicious or sentimental. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, set in 1970 when Brazil was under the military dictatorship of General Emilio Medici, is neither.
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What makes this film appealingly honest are its details, not its grand events.
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The filmmakers succeed with an unexpected ending. It's as fresh as everything in the movie, which turns out to be about so much more than one youngster's resilience.
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This nuanced coming-of-age drama by Cao Hamburger exudes warmth without getting mired in nostalgia.
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Sensitive, delicate and involving.
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One true gem is Daniela Piepszyk, Mauro's teen neighbor, who is a fireball and the leader of the neighborhood gang of boys. You can't take your eyes off her.
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A curiously unaffecting amalgam of the archetypal coming-of-age tale, here twinned to "outsider" religious overtones (in this case São Paulo's Orthodox Jewish community) and a small but deadly dose of uneasy political melodrama.
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Cinema nacional está em constante evolução e um dos poucos casos que consegue ótimos resultado esse filme com certeza um dos melhores dos ultimos anos.
Production Company:
- Gullane
- Caos Produções Cinematográficas
- Miravista
- Globo Filmes
- Lereby Productions
- Locall
- Petrobrás
- Teleimage
Release Date:Feb 15, 2008
Duration:1 h 50 m
Rating:PG
Awards
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 3 Wins & 13 Nominations
Prêmio Guarani
• 3 Wins & 11 Nominations
Prêmio Qualidade, Brazil
• 7 Nominations
