{"id":53624,"date":"2022-07-21T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=53624"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:01:33","slug":"back-to-maracana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=53624","title":{"rendered":"Back to Maracan\u00e3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back to Maracan\u00e3\/Photo courtesy of United King Films, photo by Rachel Tanugi Ribas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Infused with a love of football (aka soccer), family, and Brazil, Back to Maracan\u00e3<\/em> (Brazil Ahuvati \u2013 Hebrew title) directed by Jorge Gurvich, with a screenplay by Gurvich and Hagi Lifshitz, is a lively, sunny film, full of heart. A humorous road-trip-sports hybrid with a character-driven plot, the film looks at fathers and sons, fans and obsessions with a clear yet compassionate gaze.<\/p>\n

Roberto (Asaf Goldstien) is a passionate football fan who sees all of life in relation to football and important matches \u2013 even calculating his son\u2019s age by football landmarks. As one might guess, other aspects of his life don\u2019t match up to the thrill he gets from football. His business ventures have failed, he\u2019s broke and sleeping on the couch in his father\u2019s apartment, and as a divorced dad, he can\u2019t even offer a proper home to his son Itai (Rom Barnea). Roberto\u2019s father Samuel (Ant\u00f4nio Petrin) is also a fervent football fan, but that seems to be about all that father and son have in common. Maybe it\u2019s enough, but it does make for rough going, as Samuel seems to criticize Roberto at every turn. The generation gap continues into the third generation, as Itai is not only distant from his admittedly rather absent father, but hates football, so they don\u2019t even have that in common. Shuttled between his smart, successful mother Tali (Hadas Kalderon) and his dreamer dad, Itai finds refuge in his smartphone. Yet despite their differences, there is a lot of love in this family.<\/p>\n

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Back to Maracan\u00e3\/Photo courtesy of United King Films, photo by Rachel Tanugi Ribas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The film is set in 2014, just before the World Cup in Brazil. When Samuel impulsively takes Roberto and Itai to Brazil to see the final match, the three embark on a journey that will affect them all. For Samuel Brazil is full of memories, and the trip becomes a journey into his past. Parts of the film were shot in Brazil in 2014, and it is full of the colorful, festive feeling of the World Cup. As they spend more time together, three become better acquainted with one another, as previously unknown aspects of their past and personalities are revealed. Itai, spending time with his cousins for whom football is a big part of their daily lives, and feeling the celebratory atmosphere in Brazil, is caught up in it too. Yet as they experience the ups and downs of this trip, Samuel, Roberto, and Itai each discover something new about themselves as well, discoveries that bring sorrow and regret as well as joy.<\/p>\n

Back to Maracan\u00e3<\/em><\/p>\n

Brazil\/Israel\/Germany\/92 min\/2019\/Portuguese and Hebrew<\/p>\n

Director: Jorge Gurvich; Screenplay: Gurvich, Hagi Lifshitz; Cinematography: Rodrigo Graciosa, Amnon Zlayet; Editing: Yosef Grunfeld; Music: Marcello Nami; Cast: Asaf Goldstein, Ant\u00f4nio Petrin, Rom Barnea, Hadas Kalderon, Ol\u00e9 Erdmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infused with a love of football (aka soccer), family, and Brazil, Back to Maracan\u00e3 (Brazil Ahuvati \u2013 Hebrew title) directed by Jorge Gurvich, with a screenplay by Gurvich and Hagi Lifshitz, is a lively, sunny film, full of heart. A humorous road-trip-sports hybrid with a character-driven plot, the film looks at fathers and sons, fans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[159,160,96,156,157,158],"class_list":["post-53624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-brazil","tag-family","tag-film","tag-football","tag-soccer","tag-world-cup-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}