The Non-Agreed Memory of Lucia Murat: Women During Dictatorship from a Filmic Perspective

This article analyses the problematisation of memory concerning women’s political resistance to the Brazilian dictatorship through the work of Lucia Murat. Murat’s films Que bom te ver viva and A memória que me contam are presented as case studies to examine the filmmaker’s challenge to a hegemonic memory of the Brazilian dictatorial period, through the insertion of a gender perspective on repression and flexible narrative forms. The themes of memory, testimony, trauma, gender hatred and the relationship between nation and patriarchy are added to the examination of the political context of the films, with the intention of initiating a debate on gender violence from a Latin American perspective. This study also reflects on the complex relationships between culture, politics and history.