Master, a Building in Copacabana
2002 · 110 MIN · IMDB 8.3 · 1,796 VOTES · DIR. Eduardo Coutinho
Overview
"Master" is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro's neighborhood for nightlife. Over the course of four weeks in 2001, Eduardo Coutinho's film crew rented one of the 276 apartments and used it as home base to make a film about the building's residents. We get to know the building manager, who succeeded in turning the troubled residence into a family complex within just a few years. Using interviews and a few stolen moments in the corridors of the building, Coutinho explores this world. Most of the building's residents come from the lower middle class and are just getting by, but that's just about the only thing they have in common - so many people, so many stories, sometimes told in a self-confident tone, sometimes with averted eyes. The fact that a film crew is interested in their stories puzzles some of them. Hope, fear, dreams, memories, love and loneliness all appear from behind the doors of this average apartment building.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,509 lines
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00:00:16 " MASTER A COPACABANA BUlLDlNG"
00:05:48 -Fine. Welcome. -Thank you.
00:10:18 he took his piece out of his pocket.
00:14:47 Everyday he sends me e-mails, calls, wires me money...
00:19:10 my world ends
00:23:56 -Do you like Copacabana? -No.
00:27:49 -Was your 2nd marriage good? -Excellent.
00:31:22 Like how we met.
00:35:05 Here, l don't feel guilty, but l'm afraid.
00:40:14 l've really, really missed my mother since she died.
00:43:58 l have to drink to be able to do it. l can't work straight-faced.
00:47:26 But, all l can do is say: "You're hurting me..."
00:53:07 " l had to go. Thank you for granting me leave."
00:57:20 l admit it, l'm difficult, indeed.
01:01:38 l had sort of " inhabited", or else...
01:05:58 3, 4 hours later, it would've been too late.
01:09:54 Two Saturdays a week, l play that song for the people outside.
01:18:29 cause he dragged himself to the phone to call for help, right?
01:22:31 Cause we are identical...
01:26:16 All else was fine, no problem.
01:30:20 " lt pays only R$ 2O reais, that 's good for nothing."
01:34:53 Then she produced a show and cast me in it.
01:39:03 je parle français un petit peu.
01:42:50 but l don't make any money with poetry.