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Sentimental Education (2013)
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Original name: Educação Sentimental
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by chance – one of these encounters which mythology and literature are full of. A delicate soul who finds itself attracted to a beauty that seems to demand, disturb and move her. That shakes her up entirely. During the days following their first conversation, she will expose all her feelings through classes in which he will let himself be carried away. Until an unusual episode from the past is revealed and changes everything.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, stylized, erotic, realistic, contemplative, ambiguous ending, meta ...
Plot:
older woman teenage boy relationship, implied incest, forbidden love, mother son relationship, teachers and students, love and romance, friendship, spirituality, stream of consciousness, sexual deviant, male female relationship, affair, illicit affair, mother son incest, power relations, teenager, mysticism, philosophy, education, open ending, surrealism, monologue, trio, abrupt ending, dead sister ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
brazil
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