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Assembled with absorbing insight and passion by director Petra Costa, The Edge of Democracy is a disturbing and expansive overview of how a democratic nation can teeter into autocracy.
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Costa manages to craft an intimate primer about the state's descent into populism and the fraying of the country's democratic fabric. June 21, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Costa manages to craft an intimate primer about the state's descent into populism and the fraying of the country's democratic fabric.
Leslie Felperin
Engrossing... June 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Engrossing...
Ela Bittencourt
[Petra Costa] seems utterly incapable of crafting a frame that is lacking in urgency or vibrance. June 20, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
[Petra Costa] seems utterly incapable of crafting a frame that is lacking in urgency or vibrance.
Matt Fagerholm
An angry, intimate, and haunting portrait of Brazil's recent slide back into the open jaws of dictatorship. June 19, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
An angry, intimate, and haunting portrait of Brazil's recent slide back into the open jaws of dictatorship.
David Ehrlich
Directed by Petra Costa, this completely fascinating documentary provides an unexpectedly compelling inside look at the political earthquakes that have been roiling Brazil for several years. June 18, 2019 | Full Review…
Directed by Petra Costa, this completely fascinating documentary provides an unexpectedly compelling inside look at the political earthquakes that have been roiling Brazil for several years.
Kenneth Turan
It's a chronicle of civic betrayal and the abuse of power, and also of heartbreak. June 18, 2019 | Full Review…
It's a chronicle of civic betrayal and the abuse of power, and also of heartbreak.
A.O. Scott
This very the personal is political documentary looks at the presidencies of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. March 19, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
This very the personal is political documentary looks at the presidencies of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
Carey-Ann Pawsey
With remarkably intimate access, The Edge of Democracy follows Brazil's embattled leaders as they grapple with a scandal born out of their country's fascist past and inflamed by a furious and ideologically divided nation. March 9, 2020 | Full Review…
With remarkably intimate access, The Edge of Democracy follows Brazil's embattled leaders as they grapple with a scandal born out of their country's fascist past and inflamed by a furious and ideologically divided nation.
Manuel Betancourt
There's a lot of ground to cover, but Costa keeps a strong grip on the material February 13, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There's a lot of ground to cover, but Costa keeps a strong grip on the material
Amber Wilkinson
A poet interprets and communicates the world through metaphors and allegories found in everyday life in order to express not only what she sees, but how she feels about what she sees - and Petra Costa has the soul of a poet. [Full review in Portuguese] February 4, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A poet interprets and communicates the world through metaphors and allegories found in everyday life in order to express not only what she sees, but how she feels about what she sees - and Petra Costa has the soul of a poet. [Full review in Portuguese]
Pablo Villaça
Her (Petra Costa) outrage and sorrow are palpable and heartbreaking. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
Her (Petra Costa) outrage and sorrow are palpable and heartbreaking.
Loren King
We would all do well to watch and learn, lest our own fragile democracies, no matter where we are or what we think of them, fall off their crumbling edges into the abyss. January 23, 2020 | Full Review…
We would all do well to watch and learn, lest our own fragile democracies, no matter where we are or what we think of them, fall off their crumbling edges into the abyss.
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
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