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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #32. Marco Dutra’s Enterre Seus Mortos

Published on January 17, 2023

Enterre Seus Mortos

We’ve been big fans of the filmmaker since he broke out with Locarno preemed Hard Labor (2011) and Un Certain Regard selected Good Manners (2017) – both co-directed with Juliana Rojas. He hit Berlinale with 2020’s All the Dead Ones (read review) and could return to the Golden Bear comp with his latest work – the book to film adaptation of Ana Paula Maia’s Enterre Seus Mortos. Marco Dutra moved into production back in February of last year in Rio de Janerio with players Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano and Betty Faria grabbing top billing. Dutra reteamed with his Good Manners cinematographer Rui Poças. Lourenço Sant’Anna, Rodrigo Teixeira and Alan Terpins produced the project.

Gist: This two animal road corpse removers who end up finding a dead woman and decide to collect her body clandestinely.

Release Date/Prediction: This could be included in the Golden Bear comp or await a showing in Cannes.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).