ALBERTO GOES TO RIO
Alberto, an aging office employee who lives alone in a brutalist East London housing estate, dreams of returning home to his beloved Rio de Janeiro. During one solitary night in his single rented room, a drunk and drugged Alberto plunges into the abyss of his lush fantasies but the real life will soon catch up on him.
'Alberto Goes to Rio' is a cinema of disillusionment that shows how we are prisoners of the safe cages we have built for ourselves, choosing sweet illusion over reality.
Alberto Goes to Rio (2014)
United Kingdom, 28’
prod.IMR Studio, Bellotheque Films
dir.Lukasz Machowski
dop Tom Bell, music Michal Jakub Papara
cast: Marco Aponte, Gladys Cavalcante, Edwin De La Renta, Theo Handen, Karol Grumuza