Café com Canela

The film is a beautiful and delicate mosaic, not easy to be followed, but with extraordinary direction, composed by different pasts and presents, joy and sorrow, losses and meetings, life and death, separated parts connected with food and drink (barbecue, birthday cake, acarajé, escondidnho, coxinha, beer, and obvioulsy coffee with cinnamon), with realistic and quasi-documental dialogues, sophisticated sound edition (the sound of memory, the drumming alarm...), innovative cuts and takes. Lots of human relations, affective bonds, and the daily culture of Bahia state. All actors go very well, but Babu Santana may be highlighted: by comparing his performance with his previous (also excellent) works, anyone will be no less thn amazed by how versatile and convincing he may be while playing each unique character.