Sightlines · reception

How The Man from the Future was received

2011 · Cláudio Torres · The Man from the Future on Sightlines

The arc

A solid mid-sized hit in Brazil in 2011, it has since settled into life as a curio that international viewers keep stumbling onto while working backwards through Wagner Moura's filmography after Narcos.

What’s debated

The perennial Letterboxd split: charming Brazilian spin on the time-travel rom-com, or a great premise the execution never quite lives up to?

Its footprint

It's near-impossible to find a review that doesn't invoke Back to the Future — 'the Brazilian Back to the Future' is basically its unofficial subtitle.

Where it stands

A minor but well-liked entry in Brazilian pop cinema, kept alive mostly by Wagner Moura completists and Brazilian users' nostalgia lists.

Did you know? Director Cláudio Torres comes from Brazilian acting royalty: he's the son of Fernanda Montenegro and the brother of Fernanda Torres, of I'm Still Here fame.