Few days ago I went to Cine Sesc here in Rua Augusta, São Paulo, Brazil, to watch the Brazilian film The Secret Agent directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. This movie won 2 awards in the last Cannes Festival, best director and best male actor (Wagner Moura) among others from different countries around the world.
The cinema is managed by the same institution that runs the library I mentioned here in the Book: Strange Images, and it has a cafeteria with inexpensive, good-quality items. As far as I remember, during evening screenings and on weekends there's also a popcorn cart on the sidewalk out front, reminiscent of old-fashioned street cinemas.
The place also hosts art exhibitions in its space, related to Brazilian cinema history and movies, like the one - The second mother - that inspired this reproduction in a box of mechanical flip cards animation. Furthermore, the session I watched also had tickets more cheaper than regular exhibitions in shopping centers and malls movie theaters. Back to the movie, I really enjoyed it and realized that the object I mentioned in Orelhão (Big Ear) - Brazilian telephone booth had an important role in The Secret Agent, it also appears in the popular image promoting the film, aside paper printed telegram and Brazilian mailmen wearing 70's uniforms.
Another interesting fact about Cine Sesc is that it has a space where you can eat and drink while watching a movie. Originally, when the cinema was still a private enterprise and hadn't been acquired for public use, it was a place for smokers, where consuming cigarettes was permitted, in addition to alcoholic beverages and snacks. But I personally can't do anything else when I watch movies; even eating popcorn distracts me.
