Hour of the Star

Aroview: Distinctive Brazilian drama following the life of an impoverished, orphaned young girl who moves to Rio de Janeiro to take a job as a typist after her aunt dies.

Standing in for many of the struggling members of Latin American society, she is isolated and numbed by the forces of modernity that subjugate her. A deeply existential film about the effects of economic hardship, based on the book of the same name by internationally acclaimed Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector.