A margem

Candeias’ contemplative fiction taken from real situations narrates brief moments in the lives of four characters inhabiting the banks of São Paulo’s Tietê river. The film’s point of departure is a woman who floats along in a canoe; as we follow her, we see the problems of survival in this community. The Margin is about two couples: on the one hand, a black woman - a prostitute - who has an affair with an unemployed white man who wears a suit; and on the other, an obsessive guy chasing after a blond girl. The Tietê isn’t always the setting for the film, but its characters are always more or less 'in the margins' - uprooted from their environments, disoriented, oppressed by the fast-changing city.
Finding images that are disarming in their metaphoric simplicity, Candeias opened the possibilities for thoughtful production in the highly commercial environment of the Boca do Lixo.