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    'The Edge Of Democracy' Offers An Intimate Look At Brazilian Politics In Flux

    Petra Costa's urgent, engrossing documentary mixes memoir and reportage, raising more questions than it manages to answer about the past, present and future state of Brazilian democracy.
    by Ela Bittencourt Jun 20, 2019 4 minutes
    Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa chronicles the rise and fall of democracy in Brazil from 1985 to the present in <em>The Edge of Democracy. </em>

    Halfway through Petra Costa's engrossing new documentary, The Edge of Democracy (2019) — a mesh of personal memoir and reportage — Gilberto Carvalho, the Ex-General Secretary of Presidency for Brazil's Workers Party (PT), sums up the party's seventeen years in power: "We didn't make the political reform necessary to end the curse of business campaign financing. There lies the mother of corruption."

    The aforementioned PT is the party of one of the most popular politicians in modern history — the former metallurgical worker and ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — and of his protégé, Dilma Rousseff, who became president in 2011,

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