Movies: Julio Neri

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife...

In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid....

Autorretrato is the mirror the filmmaker uses to look at himself, and through it, at his reality, using the cinematic collage....

Electofrenia (1978), Neri's third political film, requires a critical distance in order to consider the reasons why Venezuelans choose their presidential candidate in the 1978 election. Electofrenia, signifying the chaos of the elections, proposes th...

Armada (1977), Julio Neri's first political film, was made at a time in which several Latin American countries –most importantly Argentina and Chile— had seen a turn towards military dictatorships. Neri questions authoritarian regimes through the nar...

Conditioning, claustrophobia, and mechanization lead a city dweller to a progressive mental imbalance, culminating in self-destructive masochism....

The journey of a Brazilian healer through Brazil, Panama, and Venezuela, and his various activities that blend fakirism, Christianity, and macumba, forming a noisy collective ceremony....

Film by Julio Neri....