Brazil · Film
The Hour of the Star
Suzana Amaral · 1985
Adapting Clarice Lispector, Amaral follows Macabéa, a Northeastern migrant typist in São Paulo whose malnourishment, illiteracy, and self-effacement compose a quiet indictment of internal colonialism. The film's attention to a girl who cannot name her own diminishment rhymes with Nyasha's anorexic refusal — both bodies legible only as symptom.