Director/Cinematographer Aloysio Raulino (&quot;Teremos Infância&quot; and &quot;Noites Paraguayas&quot;) captures with his camera the common routine of kids playing with their kites on the streets of Jardim Celeste, a neighborhood located in the cit...

Celeste

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With &quot;Celeste&quot;, veteran cinematographer and filmmaker Aloysio Raulino presents a typical day of fun and games of poor kids who spend their sunny afternoons flying their kites in the air in the Jardim Celeste neighborhood. The kids aren&apos;t seen in the film except for their gestures handling the kites or maybe some voices heard, and most of the images comes from the kites, some of them wrapped on the pole wires causing a massive visual pollution.

Was there an actual purpose to such proposition as a film? Not really, but once you realise this comes from the same director of the amazing &quot;Teremos Infância&quot; you understand perspective, meanings and form some thoughts about it. That other film was a short documentary that analysed the reality of unprivileged children living in poverty and the movie dared to question if those kids would ever live an actual childhood intsead of just facing countless problems early in life. Despite the obstacles they managed to have a bit of childhood as evidenced by their playful acts for the camera, but obvious that many things are missing. With that formed idea from his long distant movie comes this documentary which shows poverty again and how kids spend their days with each other.

A change happened since the kids here appear to have more opportunities than the ones from the 1970&apos;s film yet they&apos;re all poor. Yet we can&apos;t atest much of anything since he doesn&apos;t have a narrator pinpointing facts neither someone appears to discuss living under extreme circumstances. Without this comparison and this contrast of movies, this short becomes empty and it has almost nothing to show. With the comparison we can figure out that progresses were made (sort of, not entirely since there are children out there who live on the streets in the worst possible conditions and the ones featured here might have a household, they live on residential areas and have means to buy material to make kites). To the question made in 1974, will they ever childhood? Yes, but it won&apos;t be much of a typical, it&apos;ll be one where they&apos;ll look back to it with a great deal of pain and some small nostalgic memories, there are many things to be considered.

Outside of those issues, it&apos;s just a very small experiment made by an important director. 5/10.

With "Celeste", veteran cinematographer and filmmaker Aloysio Raulino presents a typical day of fun and games of poor kids who spend their sunny afternoons flying their kites in the air in the Jardim Celeste neighborhood. The kids aren't seen in the film except for their gestures handling the kites or maybe some voices heard, and most of the images comes from the kites, some of them wrapped on the pole wires causing a massive visual pollution.

Was there an actual purpose to such proposition as a film? Not really, but once you realise this comes from the same director of the amazing "Teremos Infância" you understand perspective, meanings and form some thoughts about it. That other film was a short documentary that analysed the reality of unprivileged children living in poverty and the movie dared to question if those kids would ever live an actual childhood intsead of just facing countless problems early in life. Despite the obstacles they managed to have a bit of childhood as evidenced by their playful acts for the camera, but obvious that many things are missing. With that formed idea from his long distant movie comes this documentary which shows poverty again and how kids spend their days with each other.

A change happened since the kids here appear to have more opportunities than the ones from the 1970's film yet they're all poor. Yet we can't atest much of anything since he doesn't have a narrator pinpointing facts neither someone appears to discuss living under extreme circumstances. Without this comparison and this contrast of movies, this short becomes empty and it has almost nothing to show. With the comparison we can figure out that progresses were made (sort of, not entirely since there are children out there who live on the streets in the worst possible conditions and the ones featured here might have a household, they live on residential areas and have means to buy material to make kites). To the question made in 1974, will they ever childhood? Yes, but it won't be much of a typical, it'll be one where they'll look back to it with a great deal of pain and some small nostalgic memories, there are many things to be considered.

Outside of those issues, it's just a very small experiment made by an important director. 5/10.

Director/Cinematographer Aloysio Raulino ("Teremos Infância" and "Noites Paraguayas") captures with his camera the common routine of kids playing with their kites on the streets of Jardim Celeste, a neighborhood located in the city of São Paulo.

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