A Whale Can Be Torn Apart Like a Samba School
2025, Portuguese. Directed by Marina Meliande & Felipe Bragança.
It’s Carnival in Rio. A young man wanders through the streets of the city and the remains of the huge cardboard parade floats. Driven by grief over the bankruptcy of his samba school, he’s also haunted by memories of his dead father and a lost love. An impressive cinematic experiment composed of fragments of the present and the past, developed as part cinema, part art installation in the tropical setting of Rio.
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Portuguese
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- Released
- 1 July 2025
- Original title
- Uma Baleia Pode Ser Dilacerada Como Uma Escola De Samba
- Country
- Brazil
- Written by
- Felipe Bragança
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Who directed A Whale Can Be Torn Apart Like a Samba School?
A Whale Can Be Torn Apart Like a Samba School (2025) was directed by Marina Meliande and Felipe Bragança and stars Ítalo Martins, Rachel Villar, Lux Négre.