Gustavo Abreu is the entertainment editor for iG, one of Brazil’s leading news portals, where he’s been covering film, music and TV for the past five years. He’s got a degree on Social Communication from Universidade Metodista de São Paulo and a certificate in Screenwriting from the New York Film Academy. Just like Jessica, he’s a first-generation college-goer in his family (and his mom is very proud).
“The country is changing, right?” says the mother of a wealthy São Paulo family, when she learns that her maid’s daughter wants to become an architect and is applying for college. She sounds surprised and slightly resentful. It’s a fleeting piece of dialogue which can go unnoticed but it emphasises the movie’s unmasking of upper […]