Eduardo Coutinho, Savage Linguist of Brazilian Documentary

Abstract

Filmmaker and scholar in her own right, and collaborator with Eduardo Coutinho on Edificio Master (Master Building, 2002), Consuelo Lins's essay focuses on Coutinho's final, uncompleted film, Últimas Conversas (Last Conversations, 2015), which was posthumously edited and released, and which she reads through his earlier work and through her unique perspective, drawn from her prior working relationship with the filmmaker.