Maria Esther Stockler
Actor · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Maria Esther Stockler (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 1939 – Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, 2006), dancer, choreographer, body trainer.
Movies5
Movie7.7ThrillerCrimeBorn and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
Movie8.3ComedyParanoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.
MovieDocumentaryin the waters of Arembepe, a woman, sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, a child, and a man, together in an elliptical temporality, harmonize and integrate into the space of nature with an emphatic rhythm. A biographical record of a hippie thesis from one of the popes of tropicalismo.
Movie6.0DramaDocumentaryThis film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room looking out over the beach and over the roofs of a house in North Africa.
Maria Esther: Danças Na África
1978 · 1 votes
Movie5.0FantasyA fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.