Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Rodrigo Amaro "Durval Records" tells the story of Durval (Ary França) the owner of a record store where he sells old vinyl records, resisting the advance of CD's. In this simply presentation of the movie reminds of "High Fidelity" but the story goes in another direction. Living with his old mother (Etty Fraser) in a house attached to the store, he lives his days almost with no kind of sales whatsoever. One day he employs a maid (paying very cheaply of course) thinking that his mom can't take care of herself anymore. Everything's fine. But one day he discovers that the woman left a child with him and from there he and his mother will take care of her. The comedic drama turns into a nostalgic film (when Durval plays several classic records of Brazilian's popular music throughout the film) to later become a strange black humor film (after Durval finds out who is the girl and some awkward events involving his mom always wanting that the girl stays with them).Most of the reviews here says excellent things about the film but always few things. I understand, say too much about this film isn't good enough, and it will ruin for people who really wants to see it. It's very difficult not to give away some of the mysteries of the film so I hope I haven't said too much. But I must complain of the worst review I ever read here, a prejudicial and poor review whose major complains were silly and dumb. Don't even read it!The movie has great performances, an interesting and awkward plot twists (that might bother some viewers who are not get used to see dark and twisted comedies). The soundtrack was very good too. My disagreement is about a horse presented in the plot, something that the little girl wants it and Durval's mother buys the horse, placing him in the little house. The movie could exist without it. And director and writer Anna Muylaert could add something more at the ending, we never know what happened with some of the characters. Here's a movie where things keeps turning over and over into some strange and freaky ways. I can truly say that it had a few things I saw it coming but for most of the film it was a enormous and good surprise. Oh and the thing I really loved about this film: it's a rare Brazilian work from the decade who doesn't contains cursing at all! Nothing against cursing, I really like it when it is used well (weird but truth) and in Brazilian's films it's a thing over the top and most of the time the actors who uses acts too much and it sounds something so phony. Take it for me, it's very rare to find a good film like this. Pay attention to the marvellous opening scene with the credits, one of the most original openings ever presented in a Brazilian film. 9/10

amccaule I watched Durval Discos in my Portuguese class at my university. The dialogue was fairly easy to understand. The film begins in a lighthearted manner with rather typical characters, Durval and his mother. They lead a rather dull life until their newly hired maid disappears suddenly leaving her 5 year old daughter behind. At first the child is charming to Carmita (Durval's mother) and Durval, but later they find that the situation is not at all as it seems and the film goes from lighthearted to incredibly dark, not lacking elements of dark humor typical to Latin American cinema. I was completely surprised and could not have guessed the ending. I would suggest this to anyone interested in foreign films and Brazilian culture.

mothmanbr I'm not a big fan of the Brazilian movie industry, and I rarely watch a national movie. Even more rarely I like it. But, with this movie, everything was different. Instead of saying why the movie is good and why you should watch it, I'll just describe what I felt while I watched it.The movie started, we meet the characters, and I thought that Etty Fraser(Carmita) was terrible in acting. But, I continued watching the movie because several friends said good stuff about it.The movie continues, and I still can't see anything special about it. It isn't bad, but it also isn't good, except for a few jokes. That's when reality seems to collapse in the movie. I find out that Etty Fraser was the best actress to play Carmita, and all sorts of bizarre stuff happen.By the end of the movie, which wasn't the least exciting at first, I was in awe. One of the best movies I've ever seen. I felt myself forced to buy the DVD and support the creators of this movie. I felt myself forced to register here, rate it, and comment(since apparently all comments are either neutral or negative. Don't trust those). This movie didn't get the success it deserved unfortunately.

file_com_fritas The director Anna Muylaert choose Durval to resume the spirit of nostalgia of people who until the 90's think that they would always live with LP'S , without the new technology of the CD.OK, this , in theory, was the theme of the movie, but the story takes the way of the madness, the way of the "non-sense", showing the wish of an old lady to have a company of a children. Although the amazing sound track,with songs of Sá e Guarabira, Jorge Ben, Toquinho e Vinicius, Tim Maia and others Brazilian music icons, the movie does not have good cinema technology details like screenplay, and the places where the movie is filmed are terrible, without any care.