Charcoal

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Charcoal

2022

1h 47m

Drama

Comedy

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Brazil, 2022. In a remote area in São Paulo's countryside, a rural family who lives beside a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner. The home soon becomes a hideout as the so-called guest happens to be a highly wanted drug lord. The mother, her husband and child will have to learn how to share the same roof with this stranger, while keeping up appearances of an unchanged peasant routine.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

Charcoal is a gentle, loving portrait of poverty and desperation where moral judgement takes a back seat to the complex art of survival.

Aug 21, 2023

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

The performances are note-perfect, the tension consistent.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 10, 2023

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Markowicz maintains a tight grip on the tone, keeping it just on the biting point between black comedy and agonising suspense.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 7, 2023

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Trevor Johnston

Radio Times

This is a classy, absorbing portrait of good intentions on the drift.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 29, 2024

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James Croot

Stuff.co.nz

Carolina Markowicz has crafted a dark, hellishly funny and drolly satiric gem here.

Rated: 4.5/5

Feb 16, 2024

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

It finds rich drama in the shaky state of the couple’s marriage and the bad influence their guest has on their young son. Yet there is always the underlying potential for things to turn seriously nasty...

Rated: 4/5

Mar 13, 2023

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Lúcio Leonardo P

Very well produced, directed and written entertainment, which reveals the situation of countless Brazilians who are forced to choose between doing good and evil (...look at the cliché, people!...) in order to have a better quality of life , “burning” their principles and beliefs with a lot of coal.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/16/24

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Brazil, 2022. In a remote area in São Paulo's countryside, a rural family who lives beside a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner. The home soon becomes a hideout as the so-called guest happens to be a highly wanted drug lord. The mother, her husband and child will have to learn how to share the same roof with this stranger, while keeping up appearances of an unchanged peasant routine.

Director: Carolina Markowicz
Producer: Zita Carvalhosa
Screenwriter: Carolina Markowicz
Production Co: Canal Brasil
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Original Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Runtime: 1h 47m