Twenty Years Later

Twenty Years Later

Directed by Eduardo Coutinho

Produced by Mapa Filmes, Eduardo Coutinho Produções Cinematográficas

1984119 min8.4 / 10

A poignant documentary essay that returns to an interrupted film project to witness how military dictatorship fractured lives and communities across nearly two decades.

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

Questions people ask

  • Is Twenty Years Later sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.

  • Is Twenty Years Later scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is Twenty Years Later violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Does Twenty Years Later end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Twenty Years Later easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

92/ 100

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Love97

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