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Empty Days

Name: Empty Days
Director: Robney Bruno Almeida
Released: 2018
Duration: 103 min

Representation Score

6.1/10

Good

2018

Director

Robney Bruno Almeida

Runtime

103 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Empty Days is a character-driven drama that uses queer relationships to anchor its exploration of identity and self-determination. By focusing on the struggle to reinvent oneself against the weight of provincial history, the film challenges traditional social trajectories. The strength of the work lies in its narrative structure, which prioritizes the experiences of underrepresented youth. It effectively deconstructs the stability of traditional life by highlighting the volatility of its protagonists' lives. While the film excels in LGBTQ+ representation, it remains less focused on specific gendered power dynamics or disability. The setting provides a strong cultural framework, but specific racial and ethnic casting details are not clearly defined.

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Category Breakdown

Does Empty Days have LGBTQ+ representation?

Excellent

The film centers its emotional core on two different same-sex relationships. This positioning disrupts traditional drama clichés by making queer identity the primary driver of the plot.

How does Empty Days portray gender?

Fair

The narrative explores generational cycles and the dilemma of staying in a small town. However, it lacks a direct challenge to specific gendered power dynamics or roles.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Empty Days?

Good

Set in the Brazilian interior, the film operates within a post-colonial context. It offers a non-Anglo-Saxon landscape that explores regional and multi-layered identities.

How does Empty Days represent religion and culture?

Good

The story moves away from traditional morality toward existentialist themes. It critiques cyclical social structures through the tension between characters and their parents' history.

Does Empty Days include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no mention of characters with visible or invisible disabilities within the narrative.

Present on Screen

Prioritizes queer experiences as the central emotional engine of the story.
Challenges traditional social structures through an existentialist lens.
Explores identity and self-determination within a non-Western, provincial setting.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit challenges to specific gendered power dynamics or roles.
Provides no representation or mention of characters with disabilities.
Specific racial and ethnic casting details are not clearly defined.

Official Synopsis

"Empty Days" tells the story of a day in the life of Jean and Fabiana, a couple of young boyfriends who try to reinvent their lives in a small town in the Brazilian interior. They are in their senior year of high school and live the old dilemma: either we leave this city or we stay here and continue the history of our parents. At the end of this day Jean commits suicide and Fabiana disappears. Two years later, Daniel and Alanis, another couple of young boyfriends, try to understand how everything happened.

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