The Movie of My Life (2017)

O Filme da Minha Vida

I arrived and he left. The rest, I can't tell.

113 min★ 7.1 · 2,279 votes

• Drama

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.

Release date

August 3, 2017

Country of origin

Brazil

Music

Plínio Profeta