In “Pictures of Ghosts,” Kleber Mendonça Filho does for the Brazilian city of Recife what Terence Davies did for Liverpool in “Of Time and the City.” Like Davies’ film, “Pictures” is a hometown portrait in documentary essay form, threaded with memories from its director’s youth and suffused with the melancholy in how places change.
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Pictures of Ghosts
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In “Pictures of Ghosts,” Kleber Mendonça Filho does for the Brazilian city of Recife what Terence Davies did for Liverpool in “Of Time and the City.” Like Davies’ film, “Pictures” is a hometown portrait in documentary essay form, threaded with memories from its director’s youth and suffused with the melancholy in how places change.