Fuso

The title (“Traço Fuso”, on screen “-fuso”) plays with the endings of the Portuguese words for diffuse and confused, and with fuzo — slang for revelry. The film portrays Alê, who not only works in a beauty salon but also cares deeply about her own image.

A small existentialist investigation in Curitiba: between the mirror, the scissors, the hair dryer and the bus ride home at night, the documentary observes how someone who takes care of other people’s looks builds her own.

Made by Rudolfo Auffinger and Sônia Procópio in May 2009, while both were studying film in Curitiba, the short was selected for the Midnight Screenings at Cine Esquema Novo 2009, in Porto Alegre — one of Rudolfo’s first films to screen at a festival.

Watch the full film on this page.

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