''Playing'' ( pt, Jogo de Cena) is a 2007

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian documentary film by

Eduardo Coutinho Eduardo de Oliveira Coutinho (May 11, 1933 – February 2, 2014) was a Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer, known as one of the most important documentarists in Brazil. He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 po ...

, about the friction between truth and fiction in the cinema. In the 2010s it was ranked as number 17 on the Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films list and also number 2 in the documentary list.

Plot

In response to a newspaper ad, 83 women responded and told their life story in a studio. Twenty-three of them were selected and filmed in June 2006. In September of the same year, several actresses interpreted, in their own way, the same stories.

Cast

Andréa Beltrão Andréa Vianna Beltrão (born 16 September 1963) is a Brazilian actress and playwright. She is most known for acting in comic roles, especially as Marilda in the TV series ''A Grande Família''. Selected filmography * '' Ciranda de Pedra'' (19 ...

as herself *

Fernanda Torres Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres (born 15 September 1965) is a Brazilian film, stage and television actress and writer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of the Oscar-nominated actress Fernanda Montenegro and the actor Fernando Torr ...

as herself * Marilia Pera as herself *Aleta Gomes Vieira as herself *Claudiléa Cerqueira de Lemos as herself *Débora Almeida as herself *Gisele Alves Moura as herself *Jeckie Brown as herself *Lana Guelero as herself *Maria de Fátima Barbosa as herself *Marina D'Elia as herself *Mary Sheila as herself *Sarita Houli Brumer as herself

Promotion

''Playing'' was included in the Official Selection at the International Film Festival in Punta del Este, and received its first international public screening there in February, 2008. On April, 2008 the film was also screened at the

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of ...

and at the

Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by TriBeCa Productions, Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive progra ...

. The film made subsequent appearances at the

Locarno Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...

(on August 7, 2008) and the

Los Angeles Film Festival The LA Film Festival was an annual film festival that was held in Los Angeles, California, and usually took place in June. It showcased independent, international, feature, documentary and short films, as well as web series, music videos, episod ...

(on November 19, 2014). In

, the film had its premiere at the

São Paulo International Film Festival The São Paulo International Film Festival ( pt, Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo), also known internationally as Mostra, is an annual film festival held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A non-profit event, the festival is organized ...

in October, 2007 and had its theatrical release on November 9, 2007.

Accolades

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Playing 2007 documentary films 2007 films Brazilian documentary films 2000s Portuguese-language films 2000s Brazilian films