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2010 // 80 MINS // BLACK COMEDY, QUIRKY

Director/Producer: André Klotzel
Screenwriter: José Antônio de Souza
Editor: Letícia Giffoni
Photography: Uli Burtin
Music: Mário Manga
Producers: Rui Pires and André Montenegro
Production Company: Brás Filmes e Aurora Filmes

With: Ana Lucia Torre, Selton Mello and Germano Haiut

Elvira talks to her blender - and the blender talks back. But Elvira has a darker secret, and the blender may be her accomplice. In this black comedy the blender narrates Elvira's history, including the mysterious disappearance of her husband Onofre.

"Reflections of a Blender" presents a style of black humor not often seen in Brazilian cinema. It comes to prove that you don't need to be a mega-production to be a good film..." - Thais Nepomuceno, Cinemaum.com

Lonely Elvira talks to her blender, and the blender talks back. In this black comedy, set in São Paulo, the middle-aged housewife and taxidermist Elvira reports to the police that her husband Onofre is missing. The Chief Officer decides that she is a suspect and assigns the snoopy Detective Fuinha to investigate her husband's disappearance. Elvira turns to her old talking blender as her emotional anchor. The philosophizing blender - who may just be a murder accomplice - is the film's narrator and Elvira's confider, providing a tutti-frutti tapestry of musings on humanity.

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