Socrates (2018)

Socrates: Directed by Alexandre Moratto. With Christian Malheiros, Tales Ordakji, Jayme Rodrigues, Vanessa Santana. After his mother’s sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo’s coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.

“Socrates, a good-hearted boy being pushed into manhood the hard way, lurches from crisis to crisis. Then this fairly short film ends.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere was room to tell us more, even while we can probably guess the back-story involving his father. The cinematography is brilliant, and the English sub-titles were precise and colloquial, so that was a big help. Not too unusually for Brazilian films, u0026quot;Socratesu0026quot; gives us the feeling of being right there, almost as if it were a documentary. I understand this was a project involving young filmmakers and they should be commended — itu0026#39;s strong, and would only have been made stronger by filling in bits and pieces of the story.”