A migrant worker’s journal opens up a world for a disaffected teenager, and us, in “Araby,” a beautifully turned Brazilian movie that carries on as if a social-cause documentary and a folk song ...

Many filmmakers adapt books, but relatively few make movies that actually feel like books—that is, they achieve the sort of patience and interiority that come with reading. Judging from their second ...

The working-class hero of Araby isn’t a winner. He’s so normal we don’t even know he’s the lead until the twenty-minute mark. His name is Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), and the first time we see him ...

Film focuses in on the life of a marginalised worker in contemporary Brazil. Aráby is the brainchild of Brazailian writer-directors Affonso Uchoa and Joao Dumans. It’s the first directing project for ...

Araby follows a wandering worker named Cristiano who makes his way through Brazil’s unskilled-labor wasteland. (Courtesy of Grasshopper Film) At first blush, the new Brazilian film Araby feels like a ...