![]() “The film speaks with ‘Birdman,’ Jim Carrey’s career transition and all that Robin Williams stood for. Here, he finally finds it, it is at the cost of losing touch with real life and what really matters,” said producer Fabiano Gullane, at Gullane. “The film talks about a very current issue in the industry nowadays, an artist’s absolute ego-driven search for fame. ![]() ![]() Gullane has two other Oscar candidates: “Carandiru” in 2003 and “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation” in 2008. In Rezende’s films, Augusto is an artist who becomes a TV clown host on a 1980s’ children show, an anonymous celebrity who wins fame and fortune, but at expense of alienating his son.īrazil’s Oscar entry marks the third time in four years that a production has been chosen from Brazilian production powerhouse Gullane, after its animation feature “Rio 2096, A Story of Love and Fury” was chosen in 2014 and Anna Muylaert’s “The Second Mother” in 2015. Also Brazil’s entry for the 2018 Spanish Academy Goyas, “Bingo” is inspired by the figure of real-life actor and evangelical pastor Arlindo Barreto, one of the thesps who played Bozo the Clown in 1980s Brazil.
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