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Watch: Casa Grande 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Seventeen year old Caucasian high school senior Jean Cavalcanti, who attends a well regarded private boys’ school, lives a relatively carefree life of moderate privilege in a security monitored and locked and gated big, custom built house in an affluent neighborhood in suburban Rio de Janeiro with his parents, Hugo and Sônia, fourteen year old sister Nathalie, and a houseful of servants including live-in maid Rita, black evangelical cook Noemia, and chauffeur Severino. Hugo and Sônia are too preoccupied with maintaining their upper middle class lifestyle to do much direct parenting with the exception of ensuring that Jean and Nat play their proper roles to the outside world, such as making sure that Jean gets into a good post-secondary program, something that Jean places little real effort. Not doing well on the college entrance exams may be a problem as the government has just implemented a quota system to balance the inherent disadvantages faced by non-Caucasians. Because of his parents’ general neglect, Jean largely turns to the household staff instead of his parents, Severino, his chauffeur for his daily commute to/from the city to school, who initiates his first sexual experience with a prostitute. Jean is also able to sneak into Rita’s room most nights on her teasing invitation to partake in foreplay and frank discussions of sex, although actual sex with him is a place she will not go. When Severino goes on vacation, Jean is forced to take public transit to school, a bus trip where he meets mixed race Luiza, who although not poor is not affluent like Jean’s family. Although she is bright, Luiza admits that the quota system will benefit her and the basic inequalities she faces. The two begin to date. These issues in Jean’s life are set against a backdrop of an issue of which he is unaware: that the hedge-fund Hugo managed has gone bust and thus he has lost his job. Hugo and Sônia do whatever they need to maintain their public façade of affluence – Severino who is not on vacation but was let go because of the financial issues – which includes living in the house they can no longer afford….
Plot: As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his ‘casa grande’ – not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 2,775
	91% | RottenTomatoes
	56/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 99 Popularity: 4.914 | TMDB

Reviews:

Seems a coming-of-age story but covers many other topics, being based on Freyre’s classic book “The Masters and the Slaves”
I saw this film at the Rotterdam film festival 2014 (IFFR), where it was programmed as part of the official Tiger Award competition. I neglected my earlier resolutions to not see any coming-of-age story again, as this one seemed different and I booked tickets nevertheless. And it indeed turned out different in the positive sense. A well-to-do family with ample staff gradually falls apart due to financial problems, and (of course) the father tells his family too late what is going on. Staff is dismissed one-by-one, accompanied by many lies to uphold appearances. The coming-of-age as a topic is important only in the first half, and it includes the usual problems with school, looks and girls. Luckily, the story line moves on to something completely different.

During the final Q&A with the director I learned that the film title comes from a classic book (in English translation known as “Masters and Slaves”). The director took advantage of its basic idea, but made a translation to a contemporary situation. Many things have changed in comparison with the book: middle class is growing, being poor is not that poor anymore as it was, and servants need not to be servants as desperately as before. The opening scene with the big house is on purpose, where we see the father turn out all the lights one by one, apparently to save on costs. Immediately after that, the attention moves on to the son, who stays the focus for the rest of the running time.

A special hefty scene with father and son is amplified from the director’s own youth, including all the bad words that are uttered, though the director admits to a bit of exaggeration and having made it into a caricature. Another recurring topic is an affirmative action law (quotas for minorities) that was passed just before he shot the movie, and we see several hot discussions pro and con. A final remark from the director was about soap opera’s that usually play in similar well-to-do houses, but it seems that the décor is always taken for granted and never discussed. Here the role of the “décor” is very different, and indeed important for the story. There is a second link with soap opera’s: the actor playing the son had roles in soap opera’s before, and never got a chance for a serious role.

All in all, I was happy having set aside my prejudice against coming-of-age stories. The stories of the different main characters keep our attention throughout the running time, probably due to the fact that there is more than a single main character to follow. Yet, the son gets the most attention, due to his open mind and thus interacting with everyone in spite of them being a “master” or a “servant”. This film ranked a 42nd place (out of 200) for the audience award in Rotterdam, average score 4.15 (out of 5).

Seems a coming-of-age story but covers many other topics, being based on Freyre’s classic book “The Masters and the Slaves”
I saw this film at the Rotterdam film festival 2014 (IFFR), where it was programmed as part of the official Tiger Award competition. I neglected my earlier resolutions to not see any coming-of-age story again, as this one seemed different and I booked tickets nevertheless. And it indeed turned out different in the positive sense. A well-to-do family with ample staff gradually falls apart due to financial problems, and (of course) the father tells his family too late what is going on. Staff is dismissed one-by-one, accompanied by many lies to uphold appearances. The coming-of-age as a topic is important only in the first half, and it includes the usual problems with school, looks and girls. Luckily, the story line moves on to something completely different.

During the final Q&A with the director I learned that the film title comes from a classic book (in English translation known as “Masters and Slaves”). The director took advantage of its basic idea, but made a translation to a contemporary situation. Many things have changed in comparison with the book: middle class is growing, being poor is not that poor anymore as it was, and servants need not to be servants as desperately as before. The opening scene with the big house is on purpose, where we see the father turn out all the lights one by one, apparently to save on costs. Immediately after that, the attention moves on to the son, who stays the focus for the rest of the running time.

A special hefty scene with father and son is amplified from the director’s own youth, including all the bad words that are uttered, though the director admits to a bit of exaggeration and having made it into a caricature. Another recurring topic is an affirmative action law (quotas for minorities) that was passed just before he shot the movie, and we see several hot discussions pro and con. A final remark from the director was about soap opera’s that usually play in similar well-to-do houses, but it seems that the décor is always taken for granted and never discussed. Here the role of the “décor” is very different, and indeed important for the story. There is a second link with soap opera’s: the actor playing the son had roles in soap opera’s before, and never got a chance for a serious role.

All in all, I was happy having set aside my prejudice against coming-of-age stories. The stories of the different main characters keep our attention throughout the running time, probably due to the fact that there is more than a single main character to follow. Yet, the son gets the most attention, due to his open mind and thus interacting with everyone in spite of them being a “master” or a “servant”. This film ranked a 42nd place (out of 200) for the audience award in Rotterdam, average score 4.15 (out of 5).

Other Information:

Original Language pt
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Fellipe Barbosa
Writer Fellipe Barbosa, Karen Sztajnberg
Actors Marcello Novaes, Suzana Pires, Thales Cavalcanti
Country Brazil
Awards 13 wins & 23 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)