There are a host of important, even vital ideas behind “All the Dead Ones,” a hybrid period piece addressing Brazil’s unresolved legacy of slavery and the imprint it’s had on an all-too-often downp…
, collaborating as directors for the first time, channel the artificiality of late Manoel de Oliveira but without the enticing mystery, hampered by an understandable earnestness that yearns for a more subtle approach. International prospects are uncertain at best.
Isabel keeps a tight rein on daughter Ana , whose loosened hair and air of barely contained hysteria speak of both madness and a dangerously uncontrolled sexuality. Her sister Maria , a nun who’d prefer a cloistered existence, is concerned by Ana’s constant references to their former plantation, which the women left five years earlier with the understanding they’d only temporarily be in São Paulo.
Ana begins to obsess on the need to find their former slave Iná , wife of Josefina’s grandson Antônio , believing she can fill the role of servant as well as work some Candomblé magic to heal Isabel. When Maria makes her unproductive trip to see her father, she also locates Iná, who’s suppressed her Angolan faith in recent years knowing that adherence to African religions will harm her ability to fit into the realities of a deeply divided post-slavery Brazil.
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