Memory House

DVD Features

Commentary by director João Paulo Miranda Maria

Bonus short film:

The Girl Who Danced with the Devil
Directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria
Brazil
Portuguese with English subtitles
15minutes

A girl living in a conservative religious society finds paradise in an unlikely place - at the local disco. Winner of a Special Jury Mention at Cannes 2016.

Sound: 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "Everything from the imagery to the performances and measured pace makes João Paulo Miranda Maria’s Memory House one of the most memorable films of the year."
  Andrew Stover, Film Threat
• Highest Rating
  "This dream-like slow-burn drama comes off like a waking nightmare. Maria uses imagery from Brazilian folklore to deploy a haunting interrogation of colonialism’s treacherous legacy. This uncompromising tale of one man’s spiritual reawakening is one of the year’s most ferocious social commentaries."
  Victor Stiff, That Shelf
• Highest Rating
  "With its supernatural flourishes and its unsparing take on a Brazil that looks both dystopian and nostalgic in equal measure, Miranda Maria’s debut feature is an impressive calling card. “Memory House” is, above all, a fable about identities lost and cultural artifacts in need of recovery that doubles as a thrilling and foreboding ride designed to rattle audiences at home and abroad with equal verve."
  Manuel Betancourt, Variety
• Highest Rating
  "One of the most original works in recent cinema. Memory House... is the definition of vigor in cinema. Through its direction and technical aspects, it establishes João Paulo Miranda Maria as one of the most exciting directors in recent years."
  João Victor Montuori, High On Films
• Highest Rating
  "João Paulo Miranda Maria’s first full-length film melds past and present, realism and fantasy, to offer a mesmerising symbolic and political immersion into the Brazilian collective subconscious"
  Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa
• Highest Rating
  "With an exacting and unflinching look at colonialism in modern-day Brazil, João Paulo Miranda Maria’s feature debut is a searing look at the way racism and prejudices are still held today."
  Christopher Cross, Tilt Magazine
• Highest Rating
  "Memory House, much like Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Donnelles’s recent Bacarau, makes no secret of its disgust for neocolonialism, capitalism, or fascism, though it’s more skeptical of violent resistance even when exercised in self-defense. Miranda Maria’s film exposes the hopelessness and desperation spawned by a society that drops even the pretense of treating people, black people especially, any better than livestock as soon as they get too old to work. "
  William Repass, Slant Magazine
• Highest Rating
  "[B]rilliantly executed and hauntingly shot, the director conceives an acid and hallucinating, nightmarish-style, powerfully provocative critique to an intolerable and poisoned society."
  Roger Costa, Brazilian Press
• Highest Rating
  "Rife with magical realist elements, the film is a visual and auditory treasure trove..."
  Kathleen Sachs, Chicago Reader