Writer-director Kleber Mendonca Filho, making his feature debut after a handful of shorts and a documentary, has drawn comparisons to Robert Altman for his weaving together of many characters inside and around a middle-class high-rise in a suburb of Recife, the capital city of Pernambuco. I may be particularly sensitive to this flaw because I’ve also just watched Neighboring Sounds, a Brazilian drama with a powerful and enveloping sense of place that begins a weeklong run on Friday at Gene Siskel Film Center. The digital long shots of 19th-century Paris look phony, and because director Tom Hooper ( The King’s Speech) likes to close in on his warbling actors, the inky interiors seldom register. This weekend I had the unhappy experience of catching up with Les Miserables, which suffers from more problems than I can detail here but notably-and fatally for a period picture-lacks much sense of place. Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content).
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