Fernando Meirelles is the Brazilian filmmaker best known for City of God, a multi-award-winning film about organised crime in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. He was recently in Mumbai for the MAMI film festival, and chatted about his latest film, the Netflix special The Two Popes; shooting for a biographical comedy-drama, farming, and preferring to work with ‘old’ actors. …
Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes is a bit of an anomaly; a delightfully outrageous yet warm and humane film on a seemingly serious subject. Sir Anthony Hopkins plays Pope Benedict, implacable and uncompromising when it comes to the conventions of the church, holding on to institutional values and practices, and yet aware of the inexorable transitions ahead. Jonathan Pryce is …
Five films and one documentary will be part of the Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival line-up, including The Two Popes and I Lost My Body. Five films and one documentary will be part of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2019 line up, including The Two Popes, The Irishman, Atlantics, I Lost My Body, Marriage Story, and Bikram: Yogi, …
Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and actor Deepti Naval will be honoured with the Excellence in Cinema awards at Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival with Star. Mr. Meirelles said, “As a director who makes his home on the opposite side of the world from where this festival takes place, I am humbly reminded that cinema is the perfect conduit for …