Aperana Street 52 (2012): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2012, Aperana Street 52 is a documentary film directed by Júlio Bressane, running about 80 minutes.

What it’s about. In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,

Who’s in it. Aperana Street 52 stars Joel Barcellos, Fernando Eiras as Self, Giulia Gam and Caetano Veloso as Self, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 5.7/10, Aperana Street 52 has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Aperana Street 52 page.

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