Arnaldo Jabor, journalist and filmmaker who was part of the "cinema novo" generation and directed hits such as "Eu Te Amo," from 1981, died at the age of 81 this Tuesday morning. The carioca had been hospitalized since December 17 at Hospital Sírio-Libanês, in São Paulo, after suffering a stroke.
According to the family, the cause of death was complications from the stroke. At the end of December, a medical report said that Jabor had progressively improved his neurological condition and was conscious. This Tuesday morning, film producer Suzana Villas Boas, Jabor's ex-wife and mother of his son João Pedro, wrote "Jabor became a star, my son lost his father, and Brazil lost a great Brazilian" on social media. According to advisors, Jabor still leaves an unpublished film. "My Last Wish" is based on the chronicle "O Livro dos Panegiricos," by Rubem Fonseca, and was filmed in São Paulo, with Michel Melamed in the cast.
Jabor became best known for his comments on TV Globo news starting in the 1990s. But his first vocation was as a filmmaker, trained during the 1960s under the new cinema environment — which sought to bring the reality of Brazil to the big screens.
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon