The Third Bank of the River
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The Third Bank of the River
1080pOriginal: A Terceira Margem do Rio (1994)
Watch The Third Bank of the River (1994) online in Full HD on HDZone. A movie spanning Fantasy, Drama, directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, starring Ilya São Paulo, Maria Ribeiro, Vanja Orico. Rated 6.2. Press play to stream instantly with your choice of voiceover — HDZone remembers exactly where you stopped and the translation you picked, on every device.
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After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive
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