Pedro Marques

The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memory and to make him tell his story.

The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.

The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memory and to make him tell his story.