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Film The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

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It's the summer of 1970 in Brazil, and 12-year-old Mauro's radical parents leave him at his grandfather's house so hastily that they don't realize the old man has just died of a heart attack. Alone in a Jewish neighborhood that accepts him despite his Gentile mother, Mauro focuses on the essentials: girls and soccer. But real life keeps knocking at his grandfather's door in the form of the elderly, solemn Shlomo, who is dead set on locating the boy's AWOL family. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation captures a rarely documented aspect of Brazilian history with a calm and sweet unsentimentality.

– Lisa Rosman

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