By Rodrigo Fonseca
“Goulart’s documentary about Aldo Baldin is a synesthetic exercise of the highest order, set apart from the current wave of Brazilian documentary filmmaking (particularly in the realm of intimate biography) by letting layers of sound to take the reins of the narrative. There are facts, data, analysis, research. In other words, we have all the classic filling of nonfiction delicacies. And yet, with the delicacy of a master craftsman, the film foregrounds a poetic architecture that frees itself completely from the ‘Wikipedia mode’ so common to many documentaries, lifting its narrative out of the capsule of the historical record. It is a feature-length film guided more by sensorial experience than by any need to follow the stratagem of What-Who-When-Where-Why.”
“It is a film that elevates us, without ever forgetting to provoke.”
