Oscar-Nominated Netflix Film Is Slammed by Brazil’s Bolsonaro
- ‘The Edge of Democracy’ describes Rousseff’s 2016 impeachment
- Brazil’s president calls documentary a piece of ‘fiction’
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro minced no words to express his contempt for a Netflix documentary on the country’s recent political upheaval that was nominated for an Academy Award.
The film “The Edge of Democracy,” about the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff, is “fiction,” he told reporters outside the presidential residence in Brasilia on Tuesday. “Am I going to waste time with crap like that?”