‘Ancine does everything to disrupt cinema’, says Marieta Severo

Just like her character in the movie “Aos Nosso Filhos”, who lives in anguish and has frequent nightmares about the military dictatorship – a trauma of having been arrested and tortured in the years of lead – Marieta Severo, 75, is not calm. The presidential elections and the future of Brazil worry the actress, who does not hide from anyone: she is on the countdown to leaving the current government.

“I think about it every day, and I keep counting. I never thought I would go through that again in my life”, recognizes her, one of the first personalities to sign the letter for democracy, a document that defends the superior courts, the elections and the democracy and is considered a response to the coup threats of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). “There was no way not to sign”, she emphasizes.

The actress says she wants to attract younger audiences to the movies. “‘Aos Nosso Filhos’ talks about human relationships, but shows the suffering of a woman of my generation who suffered the horrors of a horrible period in our history. And this is the path that many people still believe to be the solution for Brazil. generation knows that nothing can be worse”, he highlights.

Directed by Maria de Medeiros and based on the homonymous play by Laura Castro, the film took almost four years to premiere. “It’s impressive. There were several obstacles, including Ancine. In fact, it does everything to get in the way and not stimulate the preciousness of filmmaking. But the time has come and I believe this is the right moment”, says Marieta.

The actress considers that the discussion of the conquests of the spaces of the minorities and the choices of genres, subjects put up for debate in the film, is “very pulsating” in the country. “And that’s great. It shows that only affection can harmonize prejudices and know how to deal with them”, she explains.

The plot of “Aos Nosso Filhos” revolves around Vera (Marieta Severo), a survivor of the dictatorship who carries great traumas from the past and maintains an NGO with HIV-positive children. She cannot accept the homosexuality of her daughter, Tânia (Laura Castro), and the two expose their unhealed emotional wounds throughout the plot.