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The Day I Met You (2023)

André Novais Oliveira is a filmmaker closely associated with the Contagem school of Brazilian independent cinema, a loose collective of low-budget, observational filmmakers working out of Minas Gerais who came to prominence in the 2010s. His earlier features, including Temporada (2018), established a quietly domestic style rooted in non-professional or semi-professional performance and unhurried rhythms. The Day I Met You, produced through his own outfit Filmes de Plástico alongside Canal Brasil and Malute Filmes, runs a modest 69 minutes and sits comfortably within that micro-budget, community-made tradition. At its core it is a small, everyday story of a librarian and a chance encounter, the kind of material that Brazilian auteur cinema has handled with particular confidence since the late 1990s surge of regional, socially grounded filmmaking.

Literally searched everywhere for a version with English subs and it was nowhere to be found. My Portuguese is very basic... so I used a translation app to help but even then it's not ideal. For that reason... I just can't give it a fair review or score. From what I understood, I think I'd really enjoy it. I hope there aren't too many more films with no English subs on this challenge

Rating: Not rated | Year: 2023 | Watched: 2026-04-03

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